Australian Art - General

  • A Comment. October 1942. No. 13

    # 47510

    CROZIER, Cecily (editor); GLEESON, James, et al.

    A Comment. October 1942. No. 13

    Malvern East, Vic. : A Comment Publication, 1942. Royal octavo, self buff wrappers with linocut image by Irvine Green, staple bound, pp. [24], printed in black ink on buff paper, illustrations; including a tipped-in surrealist work by James Gleeson, includes text contributions by Brian Crozier, Geoffrey Dutton, James Gleeson, Elizabeth Galloway, Max Harris and others, …

  • Monanisms : Museum of Old and New Art

    # 47477

    WALSH, David et al.

    Monanisms : Museum of Old and New Art

    Hobart : Museum of Old and New Art, 2010. First edition. Quarto, lettered papered boards with cloth detailing, pp. xx; rotating volvelle, 386, CD-ROM inside lower board, illustrated, lacking the slipcase, but a fine copy of the landmark catalogue celebrating the launch of David Walsh’s iconic museum in Tasmania.

  • Australian art pottery 1900 - 1950

    # 47467

    FAHY, Kevin et al.

    Australian art pottery 1900 – 1950

    Sydney : Casuarina Press, 2004. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket, 362 pp. profusely illustrated. Limited to 2000 numbered copies (this out of series). An essential reference, a fine copy, practically as new. ‘The result of a four year research project which has exposed a number of previously unheralded potters and re-assessed the work of others. …

  • The Joseph Brown Collection at NGV Australia

    # 47465

    GRANT, Kirsty et al.

    The Joseph Brown Collection at NGV Australia

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, circa 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (featuring Margaret Preston), pp. 224, illustrated. Illustrated catalogue of the Joseph Brown collection, one of the great bequests of Australian art to a public institution.

  • The silent scream

    # 47454

    OPPEN, Monica; LYSSIOTIS, Peter, et al.

    The silent scream

    Political and social comment in books by artists. Essays by Monica Oppen, Peter Lyssiotis, Walter Struve, Scott McQuire, Humphrey McQueen, Des Cowley. Sydney : Ant Press for Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem, 2011. Quarto, laminated card wrappers, 189 pp. fully illustrated. Produced to accompany the exhibition at Monash University Library of international and Australian artists’ books …

  • Spirits in the Bush: The Art of Gippsland

    # 47450

    GREGG, Simon

    Spirits in the Bush: The Art of Gippsland

    Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 361 (very slight wave to text block), illustrated. ‘Spirits in the Bush surveys the art of Gippsland, from the colonial to the contemporary. This expansive, original and illuminating compendium leads readers on a journey through artistic and provincial history, interweaving the lives of residents and …

  • Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s

    # 47442

    DRAFFIN, Nicholas

    Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s

    Melbourne : Sun Books, 1976. First edition. Quarto, pictorial laminated card covers, 80 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white. Margaret Preston image upper wrapper. Includes work by Lionel Lindsay, Thea Proctor, Raymond McGrath, Ethel Spowers, Eric Thake, Hirschfield Mack etc.

  • Degenerates and perverts : the 1939 Herald exhibition of French and British contemporary art

    # 47441

    CHANIN, Eileen and MILLER, Steven

    Degenerates and perverts : the 1939 Herald exhibition of French and British contemporary art

    Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller ; with an introductory essay by Judith Pugh. Melbourne : The Miegunyah Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. xi, 306, illustrated. An account of an exhibition that brought the Australian public face- to-face for the first time with the experimental art that had been developing in Europe during the …

  • Capturing flora : 300 years of Australian botanical art

    # 47435

    AITKEN, Richard et al.

    Capturing flora : 300 years of Australian botanical art

    Ballarat : Art Gallery Ballarat, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light shelf wear), pp. 287, illustrated. ‘Capturing Flora is a handsome historical survey of the botanical illustration of Australian plants, from the time of Dampier to 2012. This sumptuous publication accompanied the exhibition of the same name at the Art Gallery of Ballarat late in …

  • Australian Artists. Portraits by Greg Weight (signed presentation copy)

    # 47432

    WEIGHT, Greg

    Australian Artists. Portraits by Greg Weight (signed presentation copy)

    Sydney: Chapter & Verse, 2004. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (corners bumped, spine sunned), 204pp. Limited to 300 signed copies. Signed by the artist and the art patron who commissioned the book, Patrick Corrigan, as well as the photographer Grey Weight. This copy a presentation copy to noted Australian art publisher, author and historian Jenny …

  • Australian impressionists in France

    # 47429

    TAYLOR, Elena et al.

    Australian impressionists in France

    Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2013. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. xiv, 177, illustrated. Australian Impressionists in France provides a new perspective on one of the best-known and loved periods in Australian art. It reveals for the first time the extent of Australian artists’ participation in the global movement of Impressionism, and examines …

  • Australian Impressionism

    # 47426

    LANE, Terence

    Australian Impressionism

    Melbourne : NGV, 2007. Quarto (280 x 240 mm), pictorial card covers, pp. 352, profusely illustrated in colour. A scholarly survey and at the same time a lavishly produced catalogue to accompany the major exhibition held at the NGV, 31 March – 8 August 2007; an excellent copy.  

  • The convict artists

    # 47425

    HACKFORTH-JONES, Jocelyn

    The convict artists

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 1987. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, light sunning to spine, pp. 96, illustrated. The first European artists to have settled in Australia. Includes sections on Thomas Bock, Charles Henry Theodore Constantini, John Eyre, nun Bull, Fred Strange, William Buelow Gould, Joseph Lycett, Thomas Watling, Charles Rodius, Thomas Griffiths Wainwright and others.

  • Belle-Île : Monet, Russell & Matisse in Brittany

    # 47420

    PRUNSTER, Ursula

    Belle-Île : Monet, Russell & Matisse in Brittany

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 132, illustrated. Curated by Ursula Prunster with contributions by Ann Galbally, Albie Thoms and Paula Dredge.  

  • Picture paradise : Asia-Pacific photography 1840s - 1940s

    # 47418

    NEWTON, Gael

    Picture paradise : Asia-Pacific photography 1840s – 1940s

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2008. Quarto (270 x 220 mm), pictorial wrappers with French flaps; pp. 88, illustrated in colour; an excellent copy. Beautifully produced catalogue to accompany one of the most significant and ambitious exhibitions of historical photography ever staged in Australia.

  • Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    # 47396

    SMITH, Jason

    Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Fine copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell (born 1960), and on the …