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Cecil John White (1900 – March 1986), known under the penname Unk White, was an Australian cartoonist born in Auckland, New Zealand. He came to Sydney in 1922 with the artists Joe and Guy Lynch and was soon immersed in the bohemian scene there. He was a regular contributor to Australian magazines, notably Melbourne Punch and The Bulletin, also Smith's Weekly and Beckett's Budget. He produced the comic strips, ''Freckles'' in 1928 and ''The Adventures of Blue Hardy'' for Pix magazine in 1938. He was a foundation member of the Black and White Artists' Club and its first secretary. In 1944 Unk was accredited as an official war artist and saw active service with the RAAF and Royal Navy in New Guinea, the Pacific and Japan.〔http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=79195〕 He was also a highly regarded painter in watercolours. From the late 1960s White drew many of the architectural drawings in the Rigby Sketchbook series. ==Publications== *''Unk White's Laugh Parade'' Frank Johnson, Sydney 1940 *''Unk White's Second Laugh Parade'' Frank Johnson, Sydney 1940 *''Unk White's Giggles'' Pinnacle Press, Sydney 1943 illustrations for Rigby Sketchbook series (pub. Adelaide) inc.:〔http://www.hibeach.net/sketchbooks.html〕 *''The Rocks, Sydney'' by Olaf Ruhen, 1966 *''Sydney Harbour Sketchbook'' by R Sriber, 1968 *''Auckland Sketchbook'' by M H Holcroft, 1969 *''Norfolk Island Sketchbook'' by R Sriber, 1969 *''New England Sketchbook'' by Peter Newell, 1970 *''Ballarat and Western Goldfields Sketchbook'' by John Bechervaise, 1970 *''Bendigo and Eastern Goldfields Sketchbook'' by John Bechervaise, 1970 *''Hawkesbury River Sketchbook''by Frank Cayley 1970 *''Blue Mountains Sketchbook'' by John Bechervaise, 1971 *''Nineteenth Century Sydney Sketchbook'' by Tess van Sommers, 1974 *''Paddington Sketchbook'' by Patricia Thompson 1975 *''Queensland Sketchbook'' by Peter Newell, 1976 *''Historic Sydney Sketchbook'' by Olaf Ruhen, Patricia Thompson, 1977 ISBN 0-7270-0276-7 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Unk White」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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