Australian Art - General

  • # 46432

    JAMES, Rodney et al

    Sea of dreams. The lure of Port Philip Bay 1830 – 1914

    Melbourne : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 82, illustrated.

  • # 46425

    JAMES, Rodney

    The artists’ retreat : discovering the Mornington Peninsula, 1850s to the present

    Mornington, Vic. : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, [1999]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly rubbed), pp. 40, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies. Includes works by Penleigh Boyd, John Perceval, Rupert Bunny, Eugene von Guerard, Louis Buvelot, Walter Withers, Nicolas Chevalier, Rick Amor, Arthur Boyd, Arthur StreetonHugh Ramsay, Fred Williams, Violet Teague and others.

  • # 46424

    STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

    Painted panorama 1800 – 1870

    Paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales. Sydney : Blaxland Gallery, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 140, illustrated. Paintings from the Mitchell and Dixon collections exhibited at the Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 1 to 30 November 1985. Includes works by Lewin, Martens, Rae, Garling, Terry, Fowles, Peacock, Prout, Lycett, …

  • # 46423

    McDONALD, Patricia R.; PEARCE, Barry

    The artist and the patron : aspects of colonial art in New South Wales

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1988. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (light handling creases), 187 pp, colour and black and white illustrations, a very good copy. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half title.

  • # 46420

    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.  

  • # 46417

    DI TOMMASO, Lisa

    The art of the First Fleet

    Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling wear, pp. 112, extensively illustrated. Ethnographical and topographical art, zoology and botanical painting from the Natural History Museum, London.

  • # 46350

    SMITH, Bernard and WHEELER, Alwyne (eds.)

    The art of the First Fleet & other early Australian drawings

    Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1988. Folio, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 256, illustrated. A significant survey of Australia’s earliest colonial art, including ethnographical studies, natural history drawings, early views of Sydney and New South Wales as well as early maps.  

  • # 46348

    TOPLISS, Helen

    Modernism and Feminism : Australian women artists 1900-1940

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1996. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (slight edge wear), pp. 232, illustrated. “This book answers the question posed by a number of male art historians and critics: ‘Why were there so many influential women artists in the inter-war period?’ The book establishes a female context for women’s art in Australia and demonstrates …

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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, …

  • # 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.