Australian Artists A-D

  • Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

    # 44852

    JONES, Phillip

    Illustrating the Antipodes. George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2021. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 380. illustrated. A very good copy. George French Angas (1822-1886) spent 18 months sketching and observing in Australia and New Zealand between 1844 and 1845. It was a period of decisive and irreversible cultural change. The young Angas excelled at capturing the minute …

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Seven.

    # 44834

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Seven.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1924. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, an excellent copy. Includes ‘The Proverbs of Goya and Blamire Young’ by Lionel Lindsay; ‘Faith, Love and, Death’ by Dowell O’Reilly; and an essay on Victorian war memorial …

  • Abram Louis Buvelot exhibition

    # 44791

    BUVELOT, Abram Louis

    Abram Louis Buvelot exhibition

    Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 1975. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, pp. [12], illustrations, essay, catalogue of works. Loosely enclosed : a 4 pp. ‘Interim catalogue’, essentially a room sheet, presumably because the full catalogue wasn’t printed in time for the exhibition.

  • War or Peace. Twelve linocuts by Noel Counihan. Poems by Jack Lindsay

    # 44748

    COUNIHAN, Noel, and LINDSAY, Jack.

    War or Peace. Twelve linocuts by Noel Counihan. Poems by Jack Lindsay

    Preface by Robert Smith. Melbourne: Gryphon Books, n.d. [1978]. Large oblong quarto, quarter maroon morocco with gilt-lettered boards in matching slipcase, numerous colour plates reproducing Counihan linocuts, additional suite of the plates in black and white contained in a stiff paper maroon folder. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Counihan Lindsay. Fine copy. When …

  • Australia at war : a winter record

    # 44712

    DYSON, Will (1880-1938)

    Australia at war : a winter record

    / made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres during the campaigns of 1916 and 1917 ; with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. London : Cecil Palmer and Hayward, 1918. First edition. Folio, original stiff pictorial wrappers, 52 pp, [21] leaves of monochrome plates, clean and sound, a fine copy.

  • Paddy Bedford : gouache

    # 44612

    MERLINO, Vanessa (editor)

    Paddy Bedford : gouache

    Melbourne and New York : D’Lan Contemporary, 2024. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, lettered in silver, pp. 104, illustrated. New copy. ‘Internationally renowned as one of Australia’s most highly regarded First Nations artists, Goowoomji Nynkuny Paddy Bedford was a senior Gija lawman who became a critical figure in East Kimberley painting. Paddy Bedford: Gouache is the …

  • Russell Drysdale

    # 44687

    [DRYSDALE]. KLEPAC, Lou

    Russell Drysdale

    Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2009 (revised edition). Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp. 384, illustrated; a fine copy.

  • Discovering Dobell

    # 44686

    HEATHCOTE, Christopher; ZIMMER, Jenny

    Discovering Dobell

    Adelaide : Wakefield Press, and Melbourne : Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2017. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 106, illustrated in colour throughout. New copy. Discovering Dobell offers an intimate glimpse of William Dobell, the artist whose heart remained anchored in the daily life of everyday people, from the streets of Depression-raked London to Sydney’s Kings Cross. …

  • Arthur Boyd

    # 44663

    PHILIPP, Franz

    Arthur Boyd

    With 44 colour plates and 134 monochrome plates. London : Thames and Hudson, 1967. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket (not price-clipped), light handling wear, 288 pp., extensively illustrated. A very good copy

  • Arthur Boyd (signed copy)

    # 44662

    PHILIPP, Franz

    Arthur Boyd (signed copy)

    With 44 colour plates and 134 monochrome plates. London : Thames and Hudson, 1967. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, light handling wear, 288 pp., extensively illustrated. A very good copy signed by Arthur Boyd on the half-title, unrelated gift inscription to endpaper.

  • Kevin Connor paintings and drawings 1983 - 2016

    # 44660

    CONNOR, Kevin; HASTINGS, Elizabeth

    Kevin Connor paintings and drawings 1983 – 2016

    Selected and edited by Lou Klepac. With contributions by Barry Pearce, Hendrik Kolenberg and Margaret Connor. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2016. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 204, fully illustrated. A fine copy. Kevin Connor, born 1932, has had an exceptional career as an artist. He has won the Archibald prize on two occasions as …

  • Rick Amor

    # 44659

    FRY, Gavin

    Rick Amor

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2008. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 216, illustrated. New copy. A new book on Melbourne artist Rick Amor. A master draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His paintings are full of drama, deep melancholy and foreboding, yet their subject matter is, more often than not, the mundane and everyday places …

  • Russell Drysdale. The drawings.

    # 44658

    KLEPAC, Lou

    Russell Drysdale. The drawings.

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 168, illustrated. The year 2012 is the centenary of the birth of Russell Drysdale, one of the greatest Australian painters of the twentieth century. This book celebrates his achievement as a draughtsman. Coming into prominence during the 1940s amid the cultural and social changes …

  • Russell Drysdale (signed copy)

    # 44608

    [DRYSDALE]. DUTTON, Geoffrey

    Russell Drysdale (signed copy)

    With 32 colour plates and 124 monochrome plates. London : Thames and Hudson, 1964. Quarto, boards with dust jacket, pp. 202, text by Geoffrey Dutton, 32 colour and 124 black & white plates some tipped in, foxing to fore-edge and very light foxing to first few and last few pages, very slight creasing to dust …

  • William Dobell (signed copy)

    # 44607

    [DOBELL]. GLEESON, James.

    William Dobell (signed copy)

    London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. Quarto, cloth-bound boards in illustrated dustjacket (minor rubbing, price clipped), 208pp, 32 colour plates, 118 illustrations in monochrome. Signed in full on the title page by the author (and artist) James Gleeson and William Dobell.

  • Nebuchadnezzar (signed copy)

    # 44605

    [BOYD]. BOASE, T. S. R.

    Nebuchadnezzar (signed copy)

    34 paintings and 18 drawings by Arthur Boyd. London : Thames and Hudson, 1972. Quarto hardcover with illustrated dustjacket, richly illustrated with numerous tipped-in colour plates, text by T. S. R. Boase. A very good copy, signed by the artist on the title page, rare thus.