Australian Art - General

  • # 44124

    [JERREMS, Carol et al.].

    Woman 1975

    Melbourne : Young Women’s Christian Association of Australia, 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (cover image by Laurie Wilson), lightly marked and rubbed; pp. 160, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; foreword by Stella C. Watson, introduction by Jennie Boddington; front free-endpaper inscribed ‘Mrs and Mr Annita Connor – for your contribution to International Women’s Year – Catherine 1975’; …

  • # 44121

    SMITH, Bernard

    European vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850 (Russell Drysdale’s copy, signed by artist and author)

    A study in the history of art and ideas. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s navy cloth over boards, in dust jacket (chipped, sunned and worn), 287 pp, with 171 b/w plates; internally very clean and sound, a good copy of the scarce first edition. Signed on the title page by …

  • # 44120

    RIENITS, Rex and Thea

    Early artists of Australia (presentation copy for Russell Drysdale)

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1963. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (light edge wear, chips to head and foot of spine, a little more than evident in the photo), patterned endpapers,, pp. x; 246, illustrated. A good copy. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed from the authors ‘Maisie and Tass with lots of love from Rex …

  • # 43956

    Youth Annual : December 1930.

    Sydney : W. H. Honey, 1 December 1930. Special number of the children’s periodical “Youth”. Large quarto (310 x 255 mm), publisher’s paper wrappers with French flaps (chipped edges, small loss around foot of spine, rear flap with split); pp. 82, texts by various Australian writers including Ed Dyson, Zora Cross, J. H. M. Abbott, …

  • # 44006

    [CHRIS DEUTSHER]

    [AUSTRALIAN ART CATALOGUES] Deutscher Fine Art.

    A near complete run of twenty-eight Deutscher Fine Art  exhibition catalogues.  Melbourne, September 1978 – September 1997. Quarto or large octavo, illustrated wrappers, colour and black and white illustrations, some price lists included. The Melbourne art dealer Chris Deutsher (without the “c“) remains one of the pre-eminent authorities on nineteenth and twentieth century Australian art. …

  • # 44032

    McGREGOR, Ken

    Unfinished Journey

    Melbourne: Macmillan, 2006. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light edge wear), 224pp. An artistic journey into Central Australia bu leading contemporary Australian artists, including John Olsen, Jason Benjamin, Anthony Lister, Zhong Chen, Fred Cress, Sharon Green, Tim Storrier, and Yvette Swan.

  • # 43659

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Australian book-plates and book-plates of interest to Australia (Special edition)

    Sydney : privately printed [Beacon Press], 1950. The Special edition, limited to 85 copies signed by the author (a standard issue of 200 copies was also published). Quarto, papered boards in quarter imitation parchment (slightly worn), printed dustjacket (edges worn, light foxing), acetate jacket, a couple of chips, 280 pp, extensively illustrated with bookplates, some …

  • # 43532

    CUNNINGHAM, W. (editor)

    Sydney Art School Magazine. The Art Student. Volume One, Number One (with a related signed letter to the Editor by Sydney Ure Smith)

    Sydney : Sydney Art School, 1930. Large octavo, red wrappers with printed title label, pp. [32], illustrated with a reproduction of a George Lambert drawing of Julian Ashton, and with an original linocut titled Mother by Joshua Smith, occasional foxing, articles and verse. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. Loosely enclosed, a signed typed letter …

  • # 43609

    CUMBRAE STEWART, Janet et al.

    Catalogue. Exhibition of paintings by Rupert C. W. Bunny, Charles Wheeler, Louis McCubbin, Harry B. Harrison, Cumbrae Stewart, Clifford J. Orme, Alexander St. Paull, John Shirlow

    Melbourne : Athenaeum Gallery, 1930. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. [12], catalogue of 79 works, a fine copy.

  • # 43736

    VAN DAELE, Patrick van; LUMBY, Roy

    A spirit of progress. Art Deco architecture in Australia

    Sydney : Craftaman House, 1997. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 228, extensively illustrated.

  • # 43735

    McDONALD, John

    Art of Australia. Vol.1 : Exploration to Federation

    Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2008. Quarto, black boards with silver lettering, illustrated dustjacket, a few handling marks, 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.  

  • # 43692

    THOMAS, Daniel

    Old masters : Fairweather, Tuckson. March 8 – April 2, 1994.

    Melbourne : Niagara, 1994. Quarto, purple wrappers, [pp. 28], colour illustrations throughout. Exhibition catalogue with list of works and essay by Daniel Thomas.

  • # 43577

    Karla DICKENS, BLAK DOUGLAS et al.

    Shadow boxer

    Maitland, NSW : Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021. Small quarto (240170 mm), pictorial card covers printed in black on silver (lightly rubbed); pp. 72, illustrated in colour and b/w; texts by the exhibiting artists as well as Wesley Enoch and Keri Glastonbury; an as new copy. Superbly produced catalogue to accompany the exhibition Shadow Boxer, …

  • # 43620

    KEMPF, Franz (President)

    Contemporary Art Society of Australia (S.A.) Inc. Broadsheet. October 1966

    [Adelaide] : Contemporary Art Society of South Australia, 1966. Octavo, decorated wrappers, pp. [8] printed roneo, includes local art news.

  • # 43617

    JOHN, Augustus et al.

    Exhibition of British Contemporary Art 1932

    Melbourne : Victorian Artists’ Society, 1932. Octavo, folding pp. [8], central creases and some wear. Includes works by S. J. Lamorna Birch, Harold Harvey, Terrick Williams, Harry Watson, Sydney Thompson, Dame Laura Knight, Emily Court, Charles Bryant, Henry Lamb, Richard Sickert, William Nicholson, Augustus John, George W. Lambert, W. Russell Flint, Muirhead Bone, Frances Hodgkins …

  • # 43540

    JONES, Rhys

    The Tasmanian Aboriginal in Art

    Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Text by Rhys Jones. Catalogue of 115 works, including works by Arago, Bock, Becker, Dowling, Duterrau, Glover, Gould, Lesueur, Simkinson de Wesselow, Webber and photographs by Nixon, Winter, Woolley, and others. Note : this copy has heavy creases to the covers …