page_title: Lionel Lindsay
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Lionel Lindsay / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: 1918. Soft-ground etching and aquatint printed in brown ink. , signed by Long and annotated by Lindsay in plate lower left to right, signed by Long and Lindsay and annotated “no. 41” in pencil in lower margin, 16.7 x 20.3cm. Slight foxing overall, repaired tear and slight stains to upper and lower margins, old mount burn. JOSEF LEBOVIC GALLERY.
context_page_description: Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay was an Australian artist.
context_section_description: In 1907 he held an extremely successful exhibition of etchings in Sydney with the Society of Artists.  The two decades after 1907 saw him active with the Society of Artists and in 1921, when the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society was formed, Lindsay was its first president. He began to exhibit in London in 1923 and had his most successful exhibition of that period at Colnaghi, a London art dealer, in 1927. Colnaghi's Galleries and the critic Harold Wright led British interest in Lindsay's work and guaranteed his reputation as a major British printmaker and watercolourist.
  Key themes in his oeuvre include the swagman in the outback, old Sydney, portraits of prominent Australians, romantic views of Spain and Arab culture, a series of classically inspired works and birds and animals.
  Lindsay became a Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and was knighted for his services to Australian art in 1941. In 1942 Lindsay published Addled Art, a vituperative and anti-semitic attack on modernism in art. Lindsay's views on modernism, however, were not as clear cut as Addled Art would have it seem: for example, Lindsay supported William Dobell during the court case over his Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Joshua Smith. He was good friends with Ernest Moffitt and published a book on his art (see link below). A Consideration of the Art of Ernest Moffitt was the first monograph written on an Australian artist.
caption: Pastoral. Lionel Lindsay after Sydney Long (1918)
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