Australian Art - General

  • Brave New World. Australia 1930s

    # 47139

    CROMBIE, Isobel et a.

    Brave New World. Australia 1930s

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, corners a little bumped, pp. 198, extensively illustrated. Includes works by Albert Tucker, Percy Leason, Daniel Vassilieff, Noel Counihan, Max Dupain, Dorothy Thornhill, Fred Ward, Sybil Craig, William Ricketts, Margaret Preston, Arthur Murch, Elioth Gruner, Freda Robertshaw, Albert Namatjira, Lionel Lindsay et al.  

  • Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art

    # 47138

    OLSEN, Penny

    Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art

    Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly foxed verso), pp. 228, a good copy. This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. There are …

  • Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    # 47137

    SMITH, Jason

    Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Fine copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell (born 1960), and on the …

  • The Crossley Gallery 1966-1980 (deluxe edition)

    # 47136

    ADAMS, Tate; ZIMMER, Jenny

    The Crossley Gallery 1966-1980 (deluxe edition)

    Editor Jenny Zimmer; with an introduction by Patrick McCaughey. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto gilt-lettered cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 220, illustrated throughout. One of a very small number of copies specially bound in a deluxe binding with slipcase. As new copy, mint condition. ‘This book presents the genesis of Tate Adam’s remarkable influence on …

  • Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945

    # 47095

    RADFORD, Ron and HYLTON, Jane

    Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000. Quarto, laminated wrappers  (light handling wear), pp. 144, illustrated throughout with colour plates of works by the artists Jean Appleton, Gwen Barringer, Clarice Beckett, Dorrit Black, Elise Blumann, Stella Bowen, Lina Bryans, Ethel Carrick (Fox), Dora Chapman, Sybil Craig, Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Bessie Davidson, Agnes Goodsir, …

  • Modernism and Feminism : Australian women artists 1900-1940

    # 47051

    TOPLISS, Helen

    Modernism and Feminism : Australian women artists 1900-1940

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1996. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 232, illustrated. A fine copy. “This book answers the question posed by a number of male art historians and critics: ‘Why were there so many influential women artists in the inter-war period?’ The book establishes a female context for women’s art in Australia and demonstrates …

  • Light sensitive : contemporary Australian photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund

    # 47048

    SMORGON, Loti & Victor

    Light sensitive : contemporary Australian photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (illustrated with a photograph by Petrina Hicks), pp. 112, illustrated with works by Brook Andrew, Darren Sylvester, Patricia Piccinini, Matthew Sleethe, Scott Redford, Pat Brassington, Deborah Paauwe and others.

  • New Australian Printmaking

    # 47017

    SPRAGUE, Quentin et al.

    New Australian Printmaking

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2022. Quarto, boards, pp. 208, illustrated. New copy. New Australian Printmaking, a project by the NGV and Australian Print Workshop, features new work by artists Megan Cope, Shaun Gladwell, Tim Maguire and Patricia Piccinini, each a recipient of an Australian Print Workshop Artist Fellowship. With varied experiences in printmaking, these …

  • Australian Impressionism (hardcover)

    # 47001

    LANE, Terence

    Australian Impressionism (hardcover)

    Melbourne : NGV, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. 352, profusely illustrated in colour. A scholarly survey of Australian impressionism and at the same time a lavishly produced catalogue to accompany the major exhibition held at the NGV, 31 March – 8 August 2007; a very good copy. The scarce hardcover edition. …

  • The unseen art scene : 32 Australian women artists

    # 46999

    AMBRUS, Caroline (editor)

    The unseen art scene : 32 Australian women artists

    Canberra : Irrepressible Press, 1995. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. Profiles 32 lesser well known Australian women artists.

  • Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    # 46997

    HUNT, Susan and DAVISON, Graeme

    Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy.

  • Australian art : a history

    # 46990

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    Australian art : a history

    Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2013. First edition. Quarto, laminated boards, cloth spine, light handling marks, pp. 570, illustrated. A very good copy. A comprehensive and definitive history of Australian Art. Published at the price of $175 and long since out of print, copies are rare in the market. ‘Grishin presents a story …

  • Australian impressionists in France

    # 46975

    TAYLOR, Elena et al.

    Australian impressionists in France

    Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2013. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. xiv, 177, illustrated. Australian Impressionists in France provides a new perspective on one of the best-known and loved periods in Australian art. It reveals for the first time the extent of Australian artists’ participation in the global movement of Impressionism, and examines …

  • Collecting ladies. Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists

    # 46967

    OLSEN, Penny

    Collecting ladies. Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated cards, very light handling marks, pp. 238, illustrated. Scare. “Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-1896), the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for ‘lady’ plant collectors. While only about ten per cent of Mueller’s astounding 3,000-strong network …

  • Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir

    # 46932

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir

    Sydney : very privately printed, ‘saxteenth Octember, thirty-four’. Quarto, printed wrappers, stringbound, pp. [32], illustrations of bookplates by Phyllis Shillito, Freda Robertshaw, George Hay and many others. limited to 150 copies signed by the author. A humorous and amusing printed souvenir for Barnett’s larger work on Woodcut Book Plates.

  • Victorian Women's Orchestra. Inaugural Concert ... Friday, March 9th, 1990, 8.00pm ... at Toorak Uniting Church ...

    # 46573

    VICTORIAN WOMEN'S ORCHESTRA

    Victorian Women’s Orchestra. Inaugural Concert … Friday, March 9th, 1990, 8.00pm … at Toorak Uniting Church …

    Program will include: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Greig: Norwegian Dances, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Ravel: Bolero. Parkdale, Vic. : VWO, 1990. A5 flyer, printed recto only; fine. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.