Australian Art - General

  • Women's Art Register. Catalogue of slides.

    # 46525

    WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)

    Women’s Art Register. Catalogue of slides.

    Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [May, 1983]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [2], 6, [8 index of Information Folders]; roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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  • Women's Art Register Extension Project. Catalogue of slides.

    # 46526

    WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)

    Women’s Art Register Extension Project. Catalogue of slides.

    Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [1983?]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [7]; roneo-printed; light creasing, Virginia’ Fraser’s annotations in pencil. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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  • You are invited to the opening of [The] An Australian Group Show. Brian Windridge, Jillian Gibb, Virginia Fraser, Fiona Hall. Photographers Gallery, 344 Punt Rd, South Yarra on Thursday July 3 [1986], 6.00 pm.

    # 46523

    PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY (Melbourne)

    You are invited to the opening of [The] An Australian Group Show. Brian Windridge, Jillian Gibb, Virginia Fraser, Fiona Hall. Photographers Gallery, 344 Punt Rd, South Yarra on Thursday July 3 [1986], 6.00 pm.

    South Yarra, Vic. : Photographers’ Gallery, [1986]. Invitation, 100 x 210 mm, black on white card, printed recto only; with Virginia Fraser’s revision of the first word of the title in felt-tip pen; a couple of light marks. The Photographers’ Gallery (and Workshop) was founded in 1973 by Paul Cox, Ingeborg Tyssen, John F. Williams …

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  • In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts

    # 46919

    GRANT, Kirsty

    In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts

    Melbourne : NGV, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. A very good copy. Includes artworks by Violet Teague, Margaret Preston, Ethel Powers, Helen Ogilvie, Geraldine Rede, Lionel Lindsay, Thea Proctor, Sybil Craig, Noel Counihan, Eric Thake, Bea Maddock, Dorrit Black and others.

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  • The Field

    # 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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  • Australians at home : a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914

    # 46691

    LANE, Terence; SEARLE, Jessie

    Australians at home : a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1990. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 449, extensively illustrated. A very good copy. “This study of Australian home interiors surveys the decoration, arrangement, and use of domestic interiors from the time the Europeans settled at Sydney Cove in the eighteenth century until 1914. Richly illustrated with over 500 …

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  • Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art. Contained within Art in Australia, third series, number seventy-two.

    # 46712

    PRESTON, Margaret

    Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art. Contained within Art in Australia, third series, number seventy-two.

    Sydney : John Fairfax and Sons, August 1938. Quarto, original green wrappers, 80 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white, previous owner’s name to upper wrapper, a fine copy. Among the various articles and illustrations is a revised piece by Preston based on a series of lectures she gave at the Art Gallery of …

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  • Aspendale Beach : an artists' haven

    # 46851

    JAMES, Rodney

    Aspendale Beach : an artists’ haven

    Mornington : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, wraparound banner, one corner creased, pp. 54, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 650 copies.

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  • The dictionary of Australian artists

    # 46894

    KERR, Joan

    The dictionary of Australian artists

    Painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992. First edition. Thick quarto, boards in dustjacket, slight corner wear, pp. 889, extensively illustrated. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian artists. A fine copy. An invaluable reference on colonial Australian art, with much information not found online.  

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  • Unsettled : Virginia Fraser, Dirk de Bruyn, Lorraine Austin. Kraznapolsky, 12/14 Grey Street, St. Kilda. Opening 24 May [2002] 6pm.

    # 46554

    [FRASER, Virginia]

    Unsettled : Virginia Fraser, Dirk de Bruyn, Lorraine Austin. Kraznapolsky, 12/14 Grey Street, St. Kilda. Opening 24 May [2002] 6pm.

    St. Kilda, Vic. : Kraznapolsky Gallery, [2002]. Exhibition flyer. 110 x 300 mm, printed recto only; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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

    # 46797

    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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  • Irreverent sculpture.

    # 46743

    PLANT, Margaret

    Irreverent sculpture.

    Melbourne : Monash University, 1985. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, includes works by Barry Humphries, Colin Lanceley, Mike Brown, Ross Crothall, Ti Parks, Clive Murray-White, Alexander Danko, Les Kossatz. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.  

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  • Historic Sydney as seen by its early artists

    # 46706

    EVANS, Susanna

    Historic Sydney as seen by its early artists

    Sydney : Doubleday, 1983. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, spine a little faded,  pp. 160, illustrated in colour and black and white. The history of Australia’s first city told through its colonial artists.

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  • No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    # 46687

    CULLEN, Jenny

    No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in storage since publication, still sealed in publisher’s plastic. Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting for six and a half years, first at the Julian Ashton …

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  • The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

    # 46662

    JOHNSON, Heather

    The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

    Grass Point [N.S.W.] : Bungoona Technologies, 1997. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 279, black and white illustrations. Scarce. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.

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  • Australian prints in the Australian National Gallery

    # 46628

    BUTLER, Roger.

    Australian prints in the Australian National Gallery

    Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Margaret Preston, pp. 56, illustrated with images by Lewin, Rodius, Gillray, von Guerard, Roberts, Lindsay, Conder, Bunny, Trail, Preston, Spowers, Waller, Brack, Williams, Boyd, etc.  

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