Norman Lindsay Museum & Gallery
BACKGROUND
Norman Lindsay was born on 22 February 1879, in Creswick in the Victorian goldfields, and died at Springwood, NSW at the age of ninety on 21 November, 1969. His family’s artistic talent came from his mother, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Williams who, as well as having been a pioneer Methodist missionary in Fiji, had a considerable skill in drawing and an interest in art that prompted him to take the young Norman Lindsay to the Ballarat Art Gallery, and, as Lindsay recalled in his autobiography My Mask, to introduce him to the painting of the figure in Solomon J. Solomon’s Ajax and Cassandra.
Of the 10 children of Dr and Mrs Lindsay, five were to become artists of distinction. Besides Norman there was Percy, the eldest, who painted sensitive landscapes in oils; Lionel, who is especially noted for his etchings
