Australian Art - General

  • # 44260

    McCORMICK, Tim

    First views of Australia 1788-1825 : an early history of Sydney

    Sydney : Longueville Publications, 1987. Edition limited to 2000 copies. Large quarto, publisher’s navy cloth boards lettered in gilt, in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks, light foxing to preliminaries, 340 pp, illustrated throughout (mostly colour plates), introduction by Robert Irving, with biographical notes on the artists, index; a very good copy of this important …

  • # 44163

    McKenzie, Janet

    Contemporary Australian drawing #1

    By Janet McKenzie ; with contributions by Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2012. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. ‘Janet McKenzie visited Australia in 2008 to update her research and exercise a global perspective on the current state of drawing …

  • # 44156

    BUTLER, Roger

    Printed: images in colonial Australia 1801 – 1901 [with] Printed: images by Australian artists 1885 – 1955 [and] Printed: images by Australian Artists 1942 – 2020

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2007 – 2021. Three volumes, quarto, pictorial boards in dustjackets, light handling wear to the dustjacket of the second volume, a few spots of foxing, otherwise fine, pp. 294; 328; 416, extensively illustrated in colour, a very good set. The complete set of Roger Butler’s comprehensive survey of printmaking …

  • # 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, …