Norman Lindsay (1879-1969)
“Rita in profile" c1940
‘One girl, named Rita, that I painted many times during my attack on oils, was the only one I got results from. She was a quiet, simple creature, very reticent, but she always expressed the emotion of any pose I put her in.’-Norman Lindsay
Rita Lee, a statuesque Pre-Raphaelite beauty of Spanish and Chinese parentage, whom Lindsay was to feature in a diverse selection of paintings.
Lindsay is one of the artists that inspired Roy Krenkel (1918 – 1983) and Frank Frazetta (1928-2010)