Trevor Lloyd’s War
Trevor Lloyd was a New Zealand artist, illustrator and cartoonist who lived from 1863 to 1937. He was largely self-taught although he might have had some lessons from the artist Louis John Steele. He started doing sketches and caricatures but soon moved on to oil paintings based on his sketches. Lloyd first exhibited his work at the Auckland Society of Arts in 1883. He re-exhibited at the society in 1896, 1898 and 1899. By the 1900s he had moved to Auckland and was making a living from his art. He began illustrating stories and articles in the New Zealand Illustrated Magazine and the New Zealand Graphic . In 1903 he joined the Auckland Weekly News as an illustrator, graphic artist and cartoonist. From 1904 his cartoons also appeared in Wilson and Horton’s other publication, the New Zealand Herald . He retired from the Herald and Weekly News in November 1936. The Angela Morton collection , housed at Takapuna Library, holds a coll...