Tom durkin artist biography
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Thomas Coleman Durkin was an Australian cartoonist and caricaturist based in Melbourne, active in the decades before Federation.
Tom Durkin (artist)
Australian caricaturist and cartoonist
Tom Durkin | |
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| Born | Thomas Coleman Durkin 1853 At sea |
| Died | 29 April 1902 Newport, Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | Artist, cartoonist, illustrator, caricaturist |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Period | 1870-1900 |
Thomas Coleman Durkin (1853 – 29 April 1902) was an Australian cartoonist and caricaturist based in Melbourne, active in the decades before Federation.
He contributed to a variety of newspapers and illustrated journals during the 1870s and 1880s, including a series of caricatures of prominent Victorians published in the Melbourne newspaper, The Weekly Times. Fourteen lithographic prints from this series are now held by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
In the early 1890s Durkin was a part-owner with Edward Dyson of the illustrated Bull-Ant newspaper. From 1893 Durkin was employed as the Melbourne cartoonist for the Sydney-based Bulletin magazine, the first Australian-born