Art Books
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# 45035
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Sidney Nolan : Inferno
Canberra : Canberra Museum + Gallery, 2022. Narrow folio, exhibition catalogue, folded sheet, illustrated, pp. [18], essay by Dr. Sarah Schmidt.
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# 45044
KLIPPEL, Robert et al.
21st Century. The magazine of a creative civilisation. September, 1955
Sydney : E. S. Perry & Sons, 1955. Octavo, bound in thick hessian with title label, with associated severe offsetting to title page and last leaf, pp. 48, illustrated. Unusually bound Australian literary arts magazine which includes the article ‘Direction in Design’ by Robert Klippel.
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# 45045
MARTIN, Frank
Frank Martin : etchings and woodcuts
[Cover title : Woodcuts etchings by Frank Martin]. London : London Graphic Arts Gallery, [1966]. Octavo, illustrated cards, pp. [20], illustrated, errata slip.
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# 45046
JAMES, Rodney
John Perceval : painting down the bay
Mornington : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2004. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 20, illustrated.
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# 45042
SNOWDEN, Betty
A Fleurieu heritage. Kathleen Sauerbier and Horace Trennery
McLaren Vale : Chapel Hill Winery, 1998. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 44, illustrated. Foreword by David Thomas. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery of South Australia, Carrick Hill, …
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# 44963
HUMPHRIES, Barry et al.
Favourites : Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from public and private collections
Sydney : S.H. Ervin Gallery, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 8, illustrated, printed catalogue enclosed.
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# 44996
LEACH-JONES, Alun
Alun Leach-Jones. Recent works.
Sydney : Watters Gallery, 1972. Exhibition catalogue, folded card (creased), pp. [6], catalogue, biography.
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# 45005
FRENCH, Leonard
Leonard French. Paintings 1987 to 1993
Sydney : Macquarie Galleries, 1993. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated in colour.
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# 45069
BERAN, Harry; CRAIG, Barry
Shields of Melanesia
/ Edited by Harry Beran and Barry Craig. Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai’i Press, in association with Oceanic Art Society, Sydney, 2005. Quarto (295 x 215 mm), publisher’s black cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket; pp. xix, [1], 287; illustrated in colour and b/w; maps; light handling wear, an excellent copy.
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# 45066
BOOTH, Peter; GASCOIGNE, Rosalie
Australia. Venice Biennale 1982. Works by Peter Booth & Rosalie Gascoigne.
Sydney : Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, 1982. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling marks), pp. 68, illustrated, ex-Education Department Library with minor stamps, some glue marks to spine, a good reference copy. Text in English and Italian. Two Australian artists were part of the 1982 Venice Biennale: Peter Booth, whose large paintings are reminiscent of …
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# 45064
BLOOMFIELD, Lin
Survey of Aboriginal art : the Hermannsburg watercolourists, 1938-1988, Arrente (Aranda) language group.
Paddington, NSW : The Bloomfield Galleries, 1989. Exhibition catalogue. Folding card (295 x 210 mm), [8] pp, catalogue text, illustrations (colour & b/w); price list enclosed Catalogue for one of three exhibitions of Aboriginal art staged by Bloomfield Galleries in 1989. Includes Albert Namatjira and family.
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# 44944
MANSELL, Chris.
Stalking the Rainbow.
Sydney: Presspress, 2002. Duodecimo, wrappers in dustjacket, cover illustration by Robert Dickerson (corner creased), pp. 28, signed by Robert Dickerson inside upper wrapper. A book of poems.
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# 44942
NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)
Sir Sidney Nolan. Dante’s Inferno – Drawings.
Sydney, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, n.d. [1982]. Small quarto, folding card, catalogue of 31 works by Elwyn Lynn, one illustration.
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# 44958
KNOX, W. D.
Art of W. D. Knox, 1880 – 1945
A retrospective exhibition of landscapes and seascapes held at the McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Vic., 20 February – 30 March 1983. Langwarrin, Vic. : The Gallery, 1983. Oblong octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated.
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# 44957
A fine field for botanizing
An exhibition arranged in association with xiii International Botanical Congress, Sydney, 21-28 August 1981. Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, 1981. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (after John William Lewin), label mark to lower wrapper, pp. 42, illustrated. Exhibition of colonial art relating to natural history.
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# 45062
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Six.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1923. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (minor loss and splitting on spine), unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a very good copy. Includes Norman Lindsay’s reply to Orpen; ‘The Virgin Queen’ by C Maclaurin; and Fables by Clive Turnbull and …