[Sprod, George : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia]
- Bib ID:
- 6094120
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
- folders of programs and miscellaneous pieces.
- Series:
- Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection
- Summary:
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Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items for Australian performing arts organisations, Australian artists performing overseas, professional productions performed in Australia (including those featuring overseas performers) and overseas performances of Australian plays, music, etc.
- Biography/History:
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George Napier Sprod (16 September 1919 - April 2003) was an Australian cartoonist, for many years active in England, who signed his work "Sprod". He was one of the many captured by the Japanese in the fall of Malaya and spent the years as a Prisoner of War conscripted to work on the Thai-Burma Railway and in Changi Prison, where he developed his artistic talents. A fellow prisoner was the British cartoonist Ronald Searle; they, and others, contributed to a fortnightly camp magazine The Exile. After the war he returned to Sydney, and sold illustrated articles on his experiences to the Australian press, and then worked for the Australian Women's Weekly. In 1949 he left for London, where he had work published by various magazines including the News Chronicle, but most importantly for Punch, and over the next twenty years was one of that magazine's most published artists. He left London around 1969 and returned to Sydney, settling in Sydney's Kings Cross, which at the time had a thriving community of artists.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- This collection is featured in the Guide to Australian Performing Arts Programs and Ephemera (PROMPT) Collections in the National Library of Australia
- Subject:
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- Copyright restrictions may apply.
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 9999
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