Australian Art - General

  • # 45524

    JESSOP, Clytie

    The thirties and Australia

    Sydney : S. H. Ervin Museum and Gallery, 1980. Quarto (295 x 21 mm), illustrated self-wrappers (lightly creased, lower wrapper with tiny price in biro), pp. 20, illustrated with art deco works by Vera Blackburn, Charles Meere, Dorrit Black, Max Dupain and Harold Cazneaux. Catalogue of 112 works. Scarce exhibition catalogue on art deco in …

  • # 45485

    CATALANO, Gary

    The years of hope. Australian art and criticism 1959 – 1968

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1981. Octavo, boards in illustrated dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. 216, illustrated.

  • # 45515

    JONES, Shar

    Early painters of Australia 1788-1880

    Sydney : Bay Books, [1988]. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned, light edge wear), pp. 208, illustrated. A survey of early Australian painting from 1788 to 1880 in which social influences and trends in art are well explained. Although many of the works featured are amateur in approach, the historical viewpoint is interesting and the …

  • # 45514

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    Australian printmaking in the 1990s : artist printmakers, 1990-1995

    Sydney, NSW : Craftsman House : G+B Arts International, 1997.Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine slightly sunned), cover by Bruno Leti, pp. 336, illustrated, a fine copy. Includes works by Rick Amor, Dean Bowen, G. W. Bot, John Wolseley, Judy Watson, Lin Onus, Gordon Bennett, Petr Herel, Aida Tomescu, Davida Allen, John Coburn, Marian Crawford, Brian …

  • # 45496

    BONYHADY, Tim and SAYERS, Andrew (editors)

    Heads of the People. A portrait of Colonial Australia.

    Canberra : National Portrait Gallery, 2000. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked, one corner creased), pp. vi; 150, illustrated. Includes portraits of indigenous Australians.

  • # 45492

    LAWLOR, Adrian (1889-1969)

    [MODERNISM] Arquebus

    Melbourne : The Ruskin Press, 1937. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s printed card wrappers with French flaps (edges and spine sunned); pp. 218; bottom and fore-edges uncut, contents clean. ‘In 1921 Lawlor began writing literary articles, poetry and stories which were published in a variety of journals including the Bulletin, Vision and New Triad. Having achieved …

  • # 45489

    TOPLISS, Helen.

    The artists’ camps : plein air painting in Melbourne 1885-1898

    Melbourne : Monash University Gallery, 1984. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated. An important survey of Australian impressionism, a very good copy.

  • # 45463

    HAMMOND, Victoria and PEERS, Juliet

    Completing the picture : women artists and the Heidelberg era

    Melbourne : Artmoves, 1992. First edition. Quarto (310 x 220 mm), illustrated wrappers, 88pp., illustrated in colour and b/w.; light handling marks, light foxing to preliminaries. Excellent reference on a lesser researched school of painters, including A.M.E. Bale, Emma Minnie Boyd, Dora Meeson, Clara Southern, Violet Teague and May Vale; Iso Rae; Jane Price and …

  • # 45451

    HAMMOND, Victoria

    A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, corner creased, pp. 96, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue of works by female Australian artists between 1840 and 1940. Features an essay by Victoria Hammond. Includes works by May Gibbs, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Grace Crowley, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Ruby Lind, Olive Cotton, Ethel Carrick Fox, …

  • # 45446

    [HESTER, Joy]; BURKE, Janine

    Joy Hester

    Melbourne : Greenhouse Publications, 1983. Folio, hardcover in dustjacket, pp 184, illustrated. A very good copy of the detailed monograph on Hester.

  • # 45059

    WORTHLEY, Boyce (editor)

    The Torch. Published annually by the Adelaide Teachers’ College. Vol. XIX, December, 1939. (Extensively signed copy)

    Adelaide : Printed at The Hassell Press, 1939. Small quarto, original textured paper wrappers with yapp edges (minor edge wear), upper wrapper with design in blue and silver; pp 44, viii; illustrated with numerous reproductions of linocuts by student artists and photographic plates; this copy is that of Vin Mansell, General Secretary of the Students’ …

  • # 45425

    McLEAN, Ian

    Double Nation. A History of Australian Art

    London : Reaction Books, 2023. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. ‘In this major new account Ian McLean traces the history of Australian art, from colonial art practice to the search for a national art in the twentieth century. Two key themes structure the narrative: the transformation of a British art …

  • # 45396

    WOMEN 150

    150 Victorian women artists

    Produced by Women 150. Melbourne : Women 150, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (by Michelle Ely), pp. 162, illustrated. A survey of contemporary women’s art in Victoria. Essay by Julie Ewington.

  • # 45392

    PLANT, Simon

    1956 : Melbourne, modernity and the XVI Olympiad

    Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine sunned, pp. 111, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. ‘The Museum of Modern Art at Heide present the exhibition of 1956: Melbourne, Modernity and the XVI Olympiad which continues the Museum’s commitment to investigating the motivations and forces which make …

  • # 45391

    HAMMOND, Victoria

    Australian ceramics

    Shepparton Art Gallery, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated in colour. Twentieth century Australian studio pottery.  

  • # 45381

    Print Council of Australia

    Contemporary Australian Printmakers 1

    [Melbourne] : Print Council of Australia, [1979]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 52, illustrations throughout. Profiles on 35 Australian printmakers,