Norman Lindsay: A personal memoir

by Douglas Alexander Stewart

Douglas Stewart's record of thirty years' close friendship with Australia's most controversial artist. Norman Lindsay and Douglas Stewart were friends for close to thirty years, enjoying a creative companionship that spanned from their first meeting in 1940s bohemian Sydney to Lindsay's death in 1969. In this moving record of that friendship, Douglas Stewart remembers Norman Lindsay the man - his richly talented family and circle of friends, his quicksilver and vital personality and his exceptional gifts as painter, etcher and writer. But above all, this is an act of homage to a man whom Douglas Stewart saw as one of the greatest figures of Australian art and literature.

Hardcover

First published May 23, 2012

About the author

Douglas Alexander Stewart (1913-1985), poet, editor and literary critic, was born on 6 May 1913 at Eltham, New Zealand, second of five children