Ruby Lindsay

Ruby Lindsay
Born	(1885-03-20)March 20, 1885 Creswick, Victoria, Australia
Died	March 12, 1919(1919-03-12) (aged 33) London, United Kingdom
Nationality	Australian
Known for	Illustration, Painting
Spouse	William Henry Dyson ​ (m. 1909)​

Ruby Lindsay (20 March 1885 – 12 March 1919) was an Australian illustrator and painter, sister of Norman Lindsay and Percy Lindsay.

Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, the seventh child and second daughter of Robert and Jane Lindsay, and lived in Melbourne from the age of 16 with her brother Percy while studying at the National Gallery of Victoria School.

Lindsay drew occasionally for The Bulletin and illustrated William Moore's Studio Sketches (1906) and designed posters. On 30 September 1909 she married Will Dyson. In 1912, she contributed illustrations to the book Epigrams of Eve by child welfare advocate and journalist Sophie Irene Loeb. After World War I she visited relations in Ireland and died during the Spanish flu pandemic. Lindsay is buried in the same grave as her husband in Hendon Cemetery, London. Her name on the headstone is shown as "Ruby Lind".

Gallery

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  Society of Artists exhibition poster, 1907
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  Fan design
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  Princes Risborough

References

• Bernard Smith, 'Lindsay, Ruby (1885 - 1919)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, MUP, 1986, pp 106–115. Retrieved 2009-09-14
• Serle, Percival (1949). "Dyson, William Henry". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.