Australian Art - General

  • Claude Flight and his followers : the colour linocut movement between the wars

    # 51182

    COPPEL, Stephen

    Claude Flight and his followers : the colour linocut movement between the wars

    Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1992. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Includes artists such as Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Lill Tschudi, Dorrit Black, Eileen Mayo, etc. Loosely enclosed : the folding illustrated ‘Activity Sheet’ for the exhibition and a silver gelatine print of what appears to be an interior …

  • The Field revisited

    # 51175

    JACKS, Robert et al.

    The Field revisited

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria 2018. Two volumes in plastic slipcase, quarto, each with diecut wrappers, the first volume being a 144 page monograph on the seminal exhibition of Australian modernism held in 1968, the second volume being a 96 page facsimile of the rare original 1968 catalogue. Very good condition, some light handling …

  • Howard Arkley and friends

    # 51154

    ARKLEY, Howard et al

    Howard Arkley and friends

    Alison Burton, Tony Clark, Aleks Danko, Juan Davila, Elizabeth Gower, Christine Johnson, Geoff Lowe, Callum Morton, John Nixon, Kathy Temin, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson and Constanze Zikos. Curated by Anthony Fitzpatrick and Victoria Lynn. Healesville, Victoria : TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2015. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 156, illustrated. A fine copy. Scarce.

  • Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 - no. 41, February 1969

    # 50746

    [NEVILLE, Richard; WALSH, Richard; SHARP, Martin et al.]

    Oz magazine : a complete set of the Australian issues, no. 1, April 1963 – no. 41, February 1969

    Sydney : Oz Publications Ink Limited, 1963-1969. Forty-one issues, quarto, original stapled wrappers, various paginations between 16 and 20 pages, all illustrated; an expected amount of toning and occasional mild foxing; small tear to lower edge of upper wrapper of first issue, else overall in very good condition throughout; a rare complete set of the …

  • The real thing

    # 51136

    ENGBERG, Juliana (curator)

    The real thing

    Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art at Heide, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 94, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art at Heide representing a major trans-historical survey of Australian art from 1897 to the present day.

  • Melbourne woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920's and 1930's

    # 51124

    BUTLER, Roger

    Melbourne woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920’s and 1930’s

    Ballarat : Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly foxed, [pp. 60], illustrations of prints throughout, some colour. Catalogue from an exhibition of the print collection of the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Artists include Napier Waller, Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme, Horace Brodzky, Nutter Buzzacott, Noel Counihan, Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Ernest Moffitt, Klytie …

  • Women printmakers 1910 to 1940

    # 51114

    McKay, Kirsten

    Women printmakers 1910 to 1940

    In the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum. Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, extensively illustrated. Includes work by Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Dora Wilson, Jessie Traill, Eveline Syme, Adelaide Perry, Alice Newell, Helen Ogilvie, Ethel Carrick Fox et al.

  • Old masters : Fairweather, Tuckson. March 8 - April 2, 1994.

    # 51061

    THOMAS, Daniel

    Old masters : Fairweather, Tuckson. March 8 – April 2, 1994.

    Melbourne : Niagara, 1994. Quarto, purple wrappers, [pp. 28], colour illustrations throughout. Exhibition catalogue with list of works and essay by Daniel Thomas.

  • Completing the picture : women artists and the Heidelberg era

    # 50978

    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, a fine copy from the library of Australian art historian and author Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page. Excellent reference on a lesser researched school of painters, including A.M.E. Bale, …

  • Australian women artists 1840 - 1940

    # 50977

    BURKE, Janine

    Australian women artists 1840 – 1940

    Melbourne : Greenhouse, 1980. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. 188, illustrated, a hint of foxing to preliminaries. Includes biographical details on colonial, impressionist and modernist painters. Includes works by Grace Crowley, Clarice Beckett, Ethel Spowers, Margaret Preston, Eveline Syme, A.M.E. Bale, Jean Bellette, Dorrit Black, Lina Bryans, Sybil Craig, Ethel …

  • Australian painters. Forty profiles

    # 50867

    HETHERINGTON, John

    Australian painters. Forty profiles

    Melbourne : F. W. Cheshire, 1963. First edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth in dustjacket (edges worn), pp. [viii]; 240, some neat underlining and notes, a very good copy. Profiles of Hans Heysen, Ian Fairweather, William Dobell, Elaine Haxton, Russell Drysdale, James Gleeson, Noel Counihan, Albert Tucker, Ray Crooke, Arthur Boyd, Jon Molvig, Robert Dickerson, John Olsen, …

  • The Paul Guest collection

    # 50830

    CRAWFORD, Ashley

    The Paul Guest collection

    Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2019. Quarto, embossed cloth, illustrated endpapers (both reproducing the works of Robert Jacks), pp. 288, extensively illustrated. Contributions by Doug Hall, Ashley Crawford, Kirsty Grant, John Harry and Jessica Bridgfoot. ‘Celebrating the gift of his collection to Bendigo Art Gallery, this exhibition showcases the extraordinary generosity of the Honourable Paul …

  • [HAWTHORN PRESS] Art here

    # 50855

    TURNBULL, Clive

    [HAWTHORN PRESS] Art here

    Cover title: Art here : Buvelot to Nolan. Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1947. Octavo, printed card covers (lightly marked), 38 pp, [8] pp plates, contents with underlining in pen. THP 430. Illustrations after Charles Bush, Frederick McCubbin, Noel Counihan, Rupert Bunny, Eric Thake, Hugh Ramsay, Grahame King and Sidney Nolan. From the schoolgirl library …

  • Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century

    # 50797

    KLEPAC, Lou

    Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century

    Selected and edited by Lou Klepac. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2000. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light edge wear, 241pp. illustrated. Includes chapters on important artists such as John Brack, Margaret Preston, Ian Fairweather, Brett Whiteley, Jeffrey Smart, Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan amongst others. A fine copy.

  • The limits of vision. The Second Dobell Memorial Lecture, October 1977 (signed copy)

    # 50694

    McCAUGHEY, Patrick

    The limits of vision. The Second Dobell Memorial Lecture, October 1977 (signed copy)

    Sydney : The Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, 1978. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, pp. 18. Limited to 350 numbered copies, this copy is signed on the title page by Patrick McCaughey.

  • Lou Klepac. Selected writings (signed copy)

    # 50663

    KLEPAC, Lou

    Lou Klepac. Selected writings (signed copy)

    Perth : privately printed, [1980]. Octavo, black lettered buff wrappers (lightly marked), 32pp., black and white illustration, reproducing selected short writings by Klepac. Produced by staff at the Art Gallery of Western Australia Anne Gray, Hendrik Kolenberg, Barbara Chapman, Neil Sellick and Victoria Kent as a Tribute booklet to Lou Klepac upon his departure from …