Australian Art - General
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# 18220
[ROBERTSON, Bryan]
Recent Australian painting. (Signed by John Olsen)
London : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1961. Quarto, laminated illustrated wrappers (laminate lifting, as always), signed by artist John Olsen on the title page; approx 60pp., 23 black and white plates plus numerous portrait photographs. Foreword by Kenneth Clark, preface by Bryan Robertson, introduction by Robert Hughes. An important catalogue, this exhibition was the first major …
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# 17639
MacGEORGE, Norman
The arts in Australia
Melbourne : F.W. Cheshire, 1948. Quarto, cloth boards with illustrated dustjacket (rubbed, but otherwise fine condition), pp 125. A diverse review of the state of Australian arts, including articles such as Drawing by Lionel Lindsay, Sculpture by Clive Stephen, the Myer Mural Panel, Architecture in Australia by Prof. Brian Lewis, theatre at state and national levels, and Australian …
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# 16922
EAGLE, Mary and MINCHIN, Jan.
The George Bell School : students, friends, influences (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art and Sydney: Resolution Press, 1981. Quarto, blindstamped leather bound boards, illustrated dustjacket, in orange slipcase, 272 pages, fully illustrated. The deluxe edition limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by twelve artists from the school on the limitation page as issued: Eric Thake, Alan Sumner, Yvonne Atkinson, Geoff Jones, Jack Courier, …
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# 17810
EAGLE, Mary and JONES, John
A story of Australian painting
Sydney : Macmillan, 1994. First edition. Small quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers, pp. (x), 294, index, with colour plates and b/w illustrations; a fine copy. ‘… a history based on the superb but not widely known ICI Australia collection’ (back cover).
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# 17592
KERR, Joan
The dictionary of Australian artists.
Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992. Thick quarto, boards in dust jacket (light foxing inside front and rear panels, spine a little sunned), pp. 889, extensively illustrated. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian artists.
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# 17823
ROBERTS, Tom; GAYLARD, Geoff
Australian impressionist & realist artists
[s.l] : Graphic Management Services, [c.1990]. Quarto, buckram boards with illustrated dust jacket, pp 228. Showing 210 works from 70 artists including Jack Absalom, Kenneth Jack, Sir Ivor Hele, and Herman Pekel.
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# 16731
URE SMITH, Sydney and BURKE, Joseph (editors)
Art and design 1. A Ure Smith publication issued twice yearly.
Sydney : Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1949. Large quarto, publisher’s cloth backed pictorial papered boards, illustrated endpapers, previous owner’s bookplate verso of front free endpaper, pp. 80, extensively illustrated throughout in black-and-white and colour; a near fine copy.
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# 17163
CRAIG, Clifford
More old Tasmanian prints : a companion volume to The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land and Old Tasmanian prints.
Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1984. Edition limited to 1000 copies (no. 444). Large octavo, fine pictorial cloth boards in like dust jacket, colour frontispiece plate, 389 pp, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, a fine copy.
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# 16995
The Australian Artist : Volume 1, Parts 1-4; Volume 2, Parts 1- 2 (complete).
Melbourne: Victorian Artists Society, 1946 - 49. Six volumes quarto, illustrated wrappers, approx 60pp. each. The cover to volume one, part two features an Aboriginal bark painting, there is also an interesting series of advertisements by Carlton & United Breweries inside the back covers which feature Australian Aborigines. An important short-lived Australian art journal from …
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# 16423
CRAIG, Clifford
The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land
Launceston : Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies (no. 343). Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards, x, 172 pp, illustrated with black and white plates, a minimal amount of speckling to top and fore-edges, a very good copy.
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# 16370
PEARCE, Barry.
A century of Australian landscape : mood and moment.
Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1983. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 96pp. illustrated throughout.
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# 15703
Gold fever! Life on the diggings 1851~1855
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp 15. Exhibition catalogue for a travelling exhibition presented by the National Library of Australia and Sovereign Hill.
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# 16269
Australian Art Society Second Annual Exhibition
Sydney : Australian Art Society, 1928. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (pencil numbers on cover), 19pp, 219 works exhibited. Lists works from 54 Australian artists.
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# 15767
McCULLOCH, Alan
Artists of the Australian gold rush
Melbourne : Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xiii; 214, illustrated. A well researched and scholarly reference.
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# 16290
HAESE, Richard.
Rebels and Precursors. The revolutionary years in Australian art (signed copy)
Melbourne: Allen Lane, 1981. First edition. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, 324pp. extensively illustrated. Important work on the Angry Penguins, their contemporaries and influence on modern Australian art. Signed by the author Richard Haese, and Angry Penguins Max Harris and Barrett Reid.
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# 16291
[CANNING, Criss et al].
Artists. The Melbourne Art Exchange (signed)
Melbourne : Melbourne Art Exchange, 1987. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 80, wet stamp on the half-title, photographic portraits, illustrations. A promotional book fraturing sixteen traditional artists for the Melbourne commercial gallery. This copy is signed by five of the artists, John Lennox, Graeme Roche, Criss Canning, Piers Bateman and John Pointon. The …