Australian Art - General

  • Creators & inventors : Australian women's art in the National Gallery of Victoria

    # 50849

    PHIPPS, Jennifer

    Creators & inventors : Australian women’s art in the National Gallery of Victoria

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1993. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Includes works by Ellis Rowan, Louisa Anne Meredith, Bessie Gibson, Violet Teague, Thea Proctor, Clarice Beckett, Grace Cossington-Smith, Jessie Traill, Frances Derham, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Klytie Pate, Joy Hester, Grace Crowley, Daphne Mayo, Jean Bellette, Hermia …

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  • Classical modernism: the George Bell circle

    # 50847

    ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity

    Classical modernism: the George Bell circle

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1992. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 139, illustrated in colour, includes the artists Sam Ateyo, Yvonne Atkinson, Cecil Beaton, George Bell, Barbara Brash, Dorothy Braund, Lina Bryans, Frances Burke, Nutter Buzacott, Wolfgang Cardamatis, Maie Casey, Rod Clarke, Yvonne Cohen, Bill Coleman, Jack Courier, Sybil Craig, Russell Drysdale, Moya Dyring, Mary …

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  • The Melbourne modernists

    # 50846

    PARAMANTHAN, Nathan (editor)

    The Melbourne modernists

    Melbourne : Victorian Artists’ Society, 1990. Oblong folio, boards in dustjacket (lightly rubbed), pp. 40, illustrated. A study on Society members painters William Frater, A. M. Plante, Arnold Shore and Isabel Tweddle.  

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  • 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 …

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  • 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.

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  • Contemporary Art Society Broadsheet 1959

    # 50791

    MORA, Georges (President)

    Contemporary Art Society Broadsheet 1959

    [Melbourne] : Contemporary Art Society, 1959. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers (marked), stapled (detaching), offsetting to first leaf, pp. 24, with contributions from Georges Mora, John Reed, Ian Sime, Ron Greenaway, Peter Burns, Laurence Hope etc. An invaluable insight into the contemporary art scene in Melbourne in the late 1950s.

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  • Elegance in Exile : Portrait Drawings from Colonial Australia

    # 50779

    GILMOUR, Joanna

    Elegance in Exile : Portrait Drawings from Colonial Australia

    Canberra : National Portrait Gallery, 2012. Octavo, decorated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, maps to endpapers, pp. 180, illustrated, folding plates. Includes works by Thomas Watling, Elizabeth Prinsep, Thomas Wainwright, Thomas Bock, Richard Read, Charles Rodius et al.

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  • Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art

    # 50778

    OLSEN, Penny

    Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art

    Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. 228, a very 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 …

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  • The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences.

    # 50777

    EAGLE, Mary and MINCHIN, Jan

    The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences.

    Melbourne: Deutscher Fine Art and Sydney : Resolution Press, 1981. Quarto, blindstamped cloth in dustjacket (handling creases), 272 pages fully illustrated. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, featuring artists Eric Thake, Alan Sumner, Yvonne Atkinson, Geoff Jones, Jack Courier, Justin Gill, Sali Herman, Ian Armstrong, Fred Williams, Harry Rosengrave, Len French, Constance Stokes, Russell Drysdale. This …

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  • Collecting ladies. Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists

    # 50769

    OLSEN, Penny

    Collecting ladies. Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated cards, light handling marks, corners a little bumped, pp. 238, illustrated. Scarce. “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 …

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  • Women of flowers : botanical art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s

    # 50763

    NORTON, Leonie

    Women of flowers : botanical art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, slightly bumped, pp. 126, illustrated, crease to the lower board. A tribute to the female colonial artists who documented Australia’s indigenous wildflowers and plants through their art.

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  • 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.

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  • A painted landscape : across Australia from bush to coast

    # 50693

    BELL, Amber Creswell

    A painted landscape : across Australia from bush to coast

    Melbourne : Thames and Hudson, 2018. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 272, illustrated. Includes artists Dan Kyle, Elisabeth Cummings, Holly Greenwood, Nicole Chaffey, Robert Malherbe, Ann Thomson, Charmaine Pike, Paula Jenkins, Amanda Penrose Hart, Lucy Culliton, Wendy McDonald, John Lloyd, John R Walker, Leisl Mott, Angus Nivison, Ken Done, Fiona Barrett-Clark, Simon Buchan, Rick Amor, …

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  • Australian women artists 1840 - 1940

    # 50696

    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 …

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  • [PROCTOR; REES; COBURN etc.] The Society of Artists. Exhibition of drawings and prints 1962.

    # 50689

    Society of Artists, Sydney.

    [PROCTOR; REES; COBURN etc.] The Society of Artists. Exhibition of drawings and prints 1962.

    [Sydney : The Society, 1962]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (slightly sunned), staple bound, [12] pp, illustrated, including advertisements. Catalogue listing 86 works with prices, including artists Thea Proctor (5), Rees, Coburn, Appleton, Wakelin and Cassab.

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  • [DOBELL; PROCTOR; NORA HEYSEN etc.] The Society of Artists. Exhibition of drawings and prints 1960.

    # 50688

    Society of Artists, Sydney.

    [DOBELL; PROCTOR; NORA HEYSEN etc.] The Society of Artists. Exhibition of drawings and prints 1960.

    [Sydney : The Society, 1960]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [38] pp, including advertisements. Catalogue listing 104 works with prices, including artists Dobell, Nora Heysen, Thea Proctor (5), Thornhill, Counihan, Santry and Gilliland; essay on Chartres Cathedral by Lloyd Rees.

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