Australian Art - General
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# 44969
SALKAUSKAS, Henry
Henry Salkauskas. June twenty-seven to July three 1961
Sydney : Macquarie Galleries, 1961. Duodecimo, printed catalogue, list of 22 works.
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# 44968
PLATE, Carl
Carl Plate. May twenty-five to June six 1960
Sydney : Macquarie Galleries, 1960. Duodecimo, printed catalogue, list of 21 works.
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# 44964
OLDFIELD, Judith et alia
Two exhibitions. Judith Oldfield. Christmas Exhibition. Macquarie Galleries 1960
Sydney : Macquarie Galleries, November December fourteen to twenty-three, 1960. Duodecimo, printed catalogue, short tear along one fold, neat pencil annotation, list of 20 works by Oldfield (jewellery enamels) and 27 works by a mixture of artists, including Rupert Bunny, Judy Cassab, Adrian Feint, James Gleeson, Ian Fairweather, Charles Conder (a 9 by 5), Jeffrey …
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# 44585
GRAY, Anne; JORDAN, Caroline; HOOPER, Juliana
Modern Australian women artists : paintings, prints and potters. The Andrée Harkness Collection (deluxe limited edition)
Melbourne : Almaled Pty. Ltd., 2020. Quarto, 280 x 245 mm, gilt-lettered cloth with insert illustration by Dora Meeson, pp. [x]; 244, illustrated, housed in a gilt-lettered slipcase with ribbon drawer. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, individually numbered, with an additional portrait of Andrée Harkness not found in the trade edition. The rare …
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# 44695
LINDSAY, Lionel et al.
An exhibition of etchings & drawings
Held under the auspices of the Society of Artists. Sydney : Farmer’s, 1924. Exhibition catalogue, narrow octavo, pp. [8], lightly foxed, staples rusted. Includes woodcuts by Margaret Preston, drawings by Hans Heysen, Thea Proctor, John Goodchild, Helen Ogilvie, Lloyd Rees, Leslie Wilkinson, B. E. Mines, Harold Herbert, Hardy Wilson, and etchings by Lionel Lindsay, Sydney …
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# 44360
BERGNER, Yosl (1920 - 2017)
Angry Penguins and realist painting in Melbourne in the 1940’s (with a signed drawing by Yosl Bergner)
London : Hayward Gallery, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (after Albert Tucker), pp. 175, illustrated; a very good copy of this substantial catalogue for a travelling exhibition held at South Bank Centre organised by the Australian National Gallery. This copy with a signed presentation inscription and original drawing by Yoel Bergner to the title page. Yosl …
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# 44516
HORNADGE, Bill
Ern Malley and the “Angry Penguins”
Being a review of the greatest hoax in Australia’s literary history, and the subsequent ‘Indecency Trial’. Lismore: W. Hornage, [1945]. Octavo, wrappers illustrated with a sour-faced penguin (light marks), 20pp. A scarce contemporary pamphlet reviewing the literary hoax. A fine copy, with ownership inscription of author and academic John Tregenza to first leaf.
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# 44383
ANNAND, Douglas
The Home Annual 1940
Sydney : John Fairfax, 1940. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (short tears to spine), pp. 92, pale water stain upper right corner, illustrated with fine reproductions of Australian art and photographs from the art deco period. Articles include “Opals” by Frank Hurley, “Western Wild Flowers” by Susannah Prichard, “Dry Spell” by Marjorie Barnard, “Still …
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# 44385
ANNAND, Douglas
The Home Annual 1939
Sydney : Sydney Morngin Herlamd, October 16th, 1939. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Douglas Annand (some creases and paper loss along spine), pp. 92, illustrated with fine reproductions of Australian art and photographs from the art deco period, and many stylish advertisements. Includes reproductions after Fred Leist and Sydney Long, articles illustrated by Douglas Annand, photography …
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# 44384
FEINT, Adrian
The Home Annual
Sydney : Art in Australia, 1st October, 1932. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Adrian Feint (staples rusted), pp. 66, illustrated with fine reproductions of Australian art and photographs from the art deco period. Includes reproductions after Margaret Preston, Hans Heysen and Kenneth Macqueen, photography by Cazneaux and Hoppe, and articles on architectural design, and Australian travel …
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# 44559
WILSON, W. Hardy
[HARDY WILSON] Catalogue of drawings of early Greek and Chinese architecture
“On view in the print room of the National Gallery of Victoria” [cover title]. Canberra : L.F. Johnson, Government Printer, 1935. Small quarto, textured card wrappers, original silk ties, [4] pp, including [2] full page plates, a very fine copy. ‘This collection of fifty drawings of the finest examples of Classical Greek and early Chinese …
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# 44557
McDONALD, John
Art of Australia. Vol.1 : Exploration to Federation (signed copy)
Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2008. Quarto, black boards with silver lettering, illustrated dustjacket, a few handling marks, light stain to fore edge, 656pp, fully illustrated in colour. A major monograph exploring Australian art across the colonial period, looking at leading artists and their works in a social historical context. Signed and dated by the author …
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# 44519
GROOM, Linda
First Fleet artist. George Raper’s birds & plants of Australia
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2009. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 146, slight sunning to spine. Natural history and topographical art from the First Fleet.
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# 44495
OLSEN, Penny
Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art
Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly foxed verso), pp. 228, light foxing to preliminaries, bookseller’s sticker to front pastedown, a good copy. This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available …
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# 44349
ANEMAAT, Louise
Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet)
Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, light handling marks, pp. 256, illustrated. A fine copy. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden …
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# 44319
RAMSAY, Christine Wu
Days Gone By, volume 2: A meeting of East and West
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 119, illustrated. New copy. In Days Gone By, Volume 2: A Meeting of East and West, Christine Wu Ramsay continues the personal story of her life in an ever-widening world – as East meets West. The story is told with warmth, insight and her …