Howard Ashton, editor, Sydney Sun, 1922 / photo by Leighton Studios, 136 Pitt Street, Sydney

P1/2105

fonds

1922

Graphic Materials, Photographs

447030

Digitised

Photographs - image 23.8 x 18.5 cm., on mount 29 x 20.4 cm. - silver gelatin photoprint (sepia toned)

For biographical information about journalist, critic and artist, Howard Ashton, 1877-1964 (eldest child of Julian Rossi Ashton and Eliza Ann, nee Pugh) see the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.7, 1891-1939. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1979.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955

"His strong inherited artistic sense has tinged his journalism without impairing it. Ashton is always scholarly, always sound, and still pungent. Latterly he has proved himself in the editorial chair of the Sydney Sun." -- The Home, June 1st 1922 (on typescript label on reverse of mount)
Digital order no:a928726

Leighton Studios / Sydney -- in pencil at lower right
Titled below image
Photographer's stamp on reverse