Frank P. Mahony
Francis Prout Mahony, also known as Frank Mahony (4 December 1862 – 28 June 1916), was an Australian painter, watercolorist and illustrator. Although christened "Francis Mahony", he later added "Prout" and usually signed his work as "Frank P. Mahony".[1] It is apparently unknown why he chose to add "Prout".[2]
Biography
Mahony was born in
Mahony's work was accepted by The Bulletin and he became known for his excellent drawings of horses. He also worked for The Antipodean, The Sydney Mail and the Australian Town and Country Journal. In addition to his periodical work, he illustrated numerous books, including Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems by Barcroft Boake, While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson and Dot and the Kangaroo, a children's book by Ethel Pedley.[3]
His oils were moderately successful. In 1889 his oil painting Rounding up a Straggler, was bought for the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[1] In 1895, he helped create the Society of Artists, Sydney and taught at the Art Society of New South Wales. As his reputation grew, he was initiated as one of the first members of the Dawn and Dusk Club, an erstwhile literary society that was mostly a social club. In 1897, he married a barmaid from Yass named Mary Tobin.
Mahony and Mary moved to England in 1901,
The political cartoonist Francis William "Will" Mahony (1905–1982) was a son.
References
- ^ ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
- ISSN 0007-4039
- ^ Dot and the kangaroo – About This Book Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine at www.childrenslibrary.org
- ^ Serle, Percival (1949). "Mahony, Francis". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
- ^ "Mahony Draws for The Tribune". The Tribune. No. 95. New South Wales, Australia. 13 March 1945. p. 1. Retrieved 20 May 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Telegraph Sacks Artist Finey". The Tribune. No. 79. New South Wales, Australia. 30 November 1944. p. 3. Retrieved 20 May 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "A Champion's Story". The Argus (Melbourne). Victoria, Australia. 3 March 1955. p. 1. Retrieved 20 May 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
Further reading
- William Moore, The Story of Australian Art (2 vols.), Angus & Robertson (1980); ISBN 978-0-207-14284-0
- Patrick Scott Cleary, Australia's Debt to Irish Nation Builders, Angus & Robertson (1933)
- George Augustine Taylor, Those Were the Days; being Reminiscences of Australian Artists and Writers, (1918)
- Frank P. Mahony (1862-1916) Colonial Artist, exhibition catalogue, Josef Lebovic Gallery (1983)
External links
- Works by Frank P. Mahony at Project Gutenberg
- Frank P. Mahony at Library of Congress (no records)
- LC Catalogue contains no records that credit Mahony; see WorldCat, below, which evidently conflates him with another Frank Mahony or two (July 2022).
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