Australian Art - General

  • # 46296

    DAVIES, Alan; STANBURY, Peter

    The mechanical eye in Australia: photography, 1841-1900.

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985. First printing. Quarto (290 x 220 mm), publisher’s black cloth in dust jacket (scattered foxing to inside of jacket); illustrated endpapers, 270 pp, profusely illustrated; contents clean throughout; a very good copy of the most useful reference work on Australian colonial photography yet published, now very scarce.

  • # 46112

    URE SMITH, Sydney

    [THEATRE] Present day art in Australia. New and revised edition of numbers 1 and 2. (Signed by Leo McKern, Keith Michell and many other actors from the touring Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company)

    Sydney : Ure Smith, 1949. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), decorated papered boards, cloth spine; pp. 64, illustrated in colour and black and white. Includes portraits of the artists; a very good copy; the front free-endpaper has the original signatures of over 40 actors from the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre’s Australian tour in 1953, including Australian stars …

  • # 46125

    LOCK-WEIR, Tracey

    Misty moderns : Australian tonalists 1915-1950

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (illustrating a work by Clarice Beckett), pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy. Seminal exhibition of Australian modernism featuring the works of Clarice Beckett, Max Meldrum, Percy Leason, William Frater, Roland Wakelin, Colin Colahan, Polly Hurry, and others.

  • # 46267

    CRAMER, Sue

    Inhibodress 1970 – 1972

    Brisbane : Institute of Modern Art, 1989. Quarto, lettered wrappers (lightly marked), pp. 78, illustrated. Works by Tim Johnson, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr.

  • # 46254

    PEERS, Juliet

    More than just gumtrees (hardcover edition)

    A personal, social and artistic history of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Melbourne : Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and Dawn Revival Press, 1993. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 308, illustrated. Includes biographies on several hundred artists. The very scarce hardcover edition.

  • # 46253

    RADFORD, Ron and HYLTON, Jane

    Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945 (hardcover)

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000. Quarto, laminated boards, 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, Marjorie Gwynne, Mary …

  • # 46246

    LANE, Terence

    Australian Impressionism (hardcover)

    Melbourne : NGV, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, 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.  

  • # 46245

    BURKE, Janine

    Australian women artists 1840 – 1940

    Melbourne : Greenhouse, 1980. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. 188, illustrated. 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 Carrick Fox, Bessie Gibson, Joy Hester, …

  • # 46242

    HAMMOND, Victoria

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

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 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, Bessie Gibson, …

  • # 46237

    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. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page.

  • # 46235

    ARKLEY, Howard et al

    Downtown : Ruscha, Rooney, Arkley.

    Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art Heide, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Suburbia through the eyes of Ed Ruscha, Robert Rooney and Howard Arkley. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, loosely enclosed is her three page speech made at the opening of the …

  • # 46234

    NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA

    The Field

    Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1968. Folio, plain white card wrappers with die-cut title (lightly stained, wear to spine and edges), 94pp., extensively illustrated. Catalogue for the exhibition held 21 August – 28 September, 1968. A couple of light creases, previous owner’s name on first page. The seminal exhibition of twentieth century abstraction in Australia, …

  • # 46232

    ASTBURY, Leigh

    Sunlight and shadow. Australian impressionist painters 1880 – 1900

    Sydney : Bay Books, 1989. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling marks, pp. 232, illustrated. A detailed study of the Australian impressionist movement in the lead up to Federation.

  • # 46231

    CATO, Jack

    The story of the camera in Australia

    Melbourne : Institute of Australian Photography, 1977. Second edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear), , pp. xv; 187, illustrated. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page.    

  • # 46226

    BONYHADY, Tim et al.

    Australia’s Impressionists

    Edited by Christopher Riopelle ; Tim Bonyhady, Allison Goudie, Sarah Thomas and Wayne Tunnicliffe with contributions from Alex J. Taylor. London : National Gallery Company Limited, 2016. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 128, illustrated. Australia’s Impressionists focuses on the paintings of Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and John Peter Russell. All were key players in …

  • # 46221

    [HESTER, Joy]; BURKE, Janine

    Joy Hester

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