There's reason for ghastliness. Eustacia, you have held my happiness in the hollow of your hand, and like a devil you have dashed it down!

Artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, and scale modeler                          

Selected Works:

Novels:

A Curate in Bohemia - 1913
Redheap - 1930 - published in the U.S. as Every Mother's Son
Miracles by Arrangement 1932 - published in the U.S. as Mr. Gresham and Olympus
Saturdee - 1933
Pan in the Parlour - 1933
The Cautious Amorist - 1934 - first published in the U.S. in 1932
Age of Consent - 1935
The Cousin from Fiji - 1945
Halfway to Anywhere - 1947
Dust or Polish? - 1950

Children's books:

The Magic Pudding - 1918
The Flyaway Highway - 1936

Poetry book:

illustrations in Francis Webb A Drum for Ben Boyd Sydney: Angus & Robertson - 1948

Other:

Norman Lindsay: Pencil Drawings - 1969, Angus & Robertson, Sydney
Creative Effort: an essay in affirmation - 1924
The scribblings of an idle mind - 1956
Norman Lindsay's pen drawings - 1974

Autobiographical:

Bohemians of the Bulletin - 1965
Rooms and Houses - 1968
My Mask - Autobiography - 1970.                          

Mother Jane Elizabeth Lindsay 
Father Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay 

Fifth of ten children, he was the brother of Percy Lindsay  - 1870-1952, Lionel Lindsay - 1874-1961, Ruby Lindsay - 1885-1919, and Daryl Lindsay - 1889-1976.

First wife Catherine Agatha Parkinson, three children, Jack, Raymond andd Phillip.. Phillip died in 1958,, Ramond in 1960.
Second wife Rose Soady, children Janet and Honey.                          

He is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest artists, producing a vast body of work in different media, including pen drawing, etching, watercolour, oil and sculptures in concrete and bronze.
A large body of his work is housed in his former home at Faulconbridge, New South Wales, now the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum, and many works reside in private and corporate collections. His art continues to climb in value today. In 2002, a record price was attained by his oil painting, Spring's Innocence, which sold to the National Gallery of Victoria for $AU333,900.                          

His frank and sumptuous nudes were highly controversial. In 1940, Rose, Norman’s second wife, took 16 crates of paintings, drawings and etchings to the U.S. to protect them from the nascent war. Unfortunately they were discovered when the train they travelled in caught fire then impounded and burned as pornography by American officials. His older brother Lionel remembers Norman's reaction was, "Don't worry, I'll do more. And he did