Australian Artists A-D

  • Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    # 47137

    SMITH, Jason

    Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print

    Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Fine copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell (born 1960), and on the …

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  • An exquisite eye : the Australian flora & fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer

    # 47135

    WATTS, Peter et al.

    An exquisite eye : the Australian flora & fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 167, illustrated. A very good copy. “This publication coincides with an exhibition of the same title held at the Focus Gallery, Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House, between 13 December 1997 and 19 April 1998.”

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  • Picturing the island

    # 47112

    CRAFWORD, Marian (1955 - )

    Picturing the island

    Melbourne : the artist, 2016. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with wraparound title band, pp. [52], illustrated. A contemporary photobook created by Melbourne artist Marian Crawford, drawing on her memories growing up on Babana (contemporary Kiribati) and using historical photographs of what was at the time known as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. ‘Picturing the Island takes …

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  • Ian W. Abdulla : Elvis has entered the building

    # 47087

    FOX, Stephen and MAUGHAN, Janet

    Ian W. Abdulla : Elvis has entered the building

    Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2003. Quarto, 280 x 240 mm mm, boards in dustjacket, pp. 104, illustrated. New copy. For a painter who wishes to be remembered as a ‘quiet lad’, Ian Abdulla has been creating quite a stir over the last 15 years. He is recognised as one of Australia’s most distinctive and appealing …

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  • The art of John Brack

    # 47081

    [BRACK]. GRISHIN, Sasha.

    The art of John Brack

    Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990. Two volumes quarto, clothbound with gilt-stamped spines in matching slipcase, a superior example with only light rubbing to the gilt, 236; 262pp. Volume one is a series of essays by Grishin on various elements of Brack’s oeuvre while volume two is a catalogue raisonne of oil paintings, works on paper …

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  • Brook Andrew : the right to offend is sacred (with ephemera)

    # 47068

    RYAN, Judith et al.

    Brook Andrew : the right to offend is sacred (with ephemera)

    Judith Ryan with Brook Andrew; Nick Aikens, Anthony Gardner, Marcia Langton, Simon Maidment and Trent Walter. Melbourne, Vic. : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 177, illustrated. Scarce. A fine copy. This copy with a signed letter from Tony Ellwood, Director of the NGV and other related ephemera.

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  • The art of Charles Blackman

    # 47050

    [BLACKMAN]. SHAPCOTT, Thomas.

    The art of Charles Blackman

    London: Andre Deutsch, 1989. Folio, cloth in dustjacket (light wave), a touch of offsetting to endpapers, 266 pages profusely illustrated in colour. The major monograph on the artist. A very good copy.

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  • Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.

    # 47045

    Sydney Ure Smith.

    Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1937. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers with Margaret Preston design, 88pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, very clean internally, a fine copy. Features articles on Arthur Streeton’s recent works, the Archibald Competition, Mary Edwards. Also includes colour and black and …

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  • Art in Australia (complete set)

    # 47043

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia (complete set)

    Art in Australia. Series 1, No. 1 – Series 4, No. 6 (1916 – 1942). Completes set. Series 1 (11 issues, quarto), Series 2 (2 issues, large quarto), Series 3 (80 issues, quarto), Series 4 (6 issues, large quarto). Illustrated wrappers, occasional chipping and flecking, extensively illustrated, tipped-in plates, a very good set. The most …

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  • The Artist and the River (deluxe edition)

    # 47011

    [BOYD, Arthur]. McGRATH, Sandra.

    The Artist and the River (deluxe edition)

    Sydney: Bay Books, 1982. Folio, gilt-decorated silk-bound boards in matching silk slipcase, 314 pp. fully illustrated. The de luxe edition, limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Arthur Boyd. A fine, clean copy.

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  • [BOOK-LOVER]. Vincent Brown. Life and Work (deluxe edition)

    # 47010

    [BROWN, Vincent]. BLOOMFIELD, Lin (ed.).

    [BOOK-LOVER]. Vincent Brown. Life and Work (deluxe edition)

    Sydney: Odana Editions, 1980. Folio, cloth in dustjacket, 80pp. fully illustrated, slight foxing to title page. Limited to 1000 copies, of which the first 160 are deluxe editions, containing an original etching ‘The book lover’. This is one of the deluxe copies, with the etching, signed by the artist.

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  • Arthur Boyd. (Deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)

    # 47008

    PHILIPP, Franz; BOYD, Arthur

    Arthur Boyd. (Deluxe edition with original signed lithograph)

    With 44 colour plates and 134 monochrome plates. London : Thames and Hudson, 1967. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, in gilt-lettered clamshell box, light foxing to the interior lining paper of the box and a trace to the endpapers, otherwise pristine, 288 pp., extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 107 numbered copies (100 available …

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  • Olive Cotton Photographer

    # 47005

    [COTTON]. ENNIS, Helen

    Olive Cotton Photographer

    Photographs and captions by Olive Cotton, with an introduction by Helen Ennis and a personal memoir by Sally McInerney. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2005 (reprint). Folio, illustrated wrappers, 72pp. illustrated by Cotton’s superb black and white photography.  

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  • Cazneaux : the quiet observer

    # 47003

    ENNIS, Helen; ADAMS, Phillip

    Cazneaux : the quiet observer

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated boards, 80pp. Monograph that explores the life and work of Harold Cazneaux, one of Australia’s most prominent photographers of the 20th century. Introduced by Helen Ennis with a personal commentary by Phillip Adams.

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  • Paddy Bedford

    # 46985

    [BEDFORD, Paddy]

    Paddy Bedford

    Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. A very good copy.

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  • The art of Ernest Buckmaster (signed copy)

    # 46982

    BUCKMASTER, Ernest

    The art of Ernest Buckmaster (signed copy)

    Melbourne : Lothian, 1951. Small quarto, cloth, pp. 54, tipped-in colour plates, essay by Buckmaster, foreword by A. H. Spencer; lightly marked and edge wear, a very good copy. Signed and inscribed by the artist on the half-title ‘Ernest Bustkmaster, Athenaeum Gallery, August 26, 1958’.

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