Australian Art - General
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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.
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# 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.
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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.
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# 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, …
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# 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, …
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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, …
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# 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.
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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.