Ruby Lindsay

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

Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria and lived in Melbourne from the age of 16 with her brother Percy Lindsay while studying at the National Gallery 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. After World War I she visited relations in Ireland and died of influenza.

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• Bernard Smith, 'Lindsay, Ruby (1885 - 1919)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, MUP, 1986, pp 106-115.