Australian Artists E-K

  • Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 - 1981

    # 46677

    Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks / Some Rubber Stamp Books / 1973 – 1981

    [New York and Sydney] : the artist, 1973 – 1981. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, manuscript title page, nine sections of original rubber stamp works, each between two and three pages each and containing five or six rubber stamps per page, each section separated with a blank page. An unique …

  • Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985

    # 46676

    Robert Jacks (1943 - 2014)

    Robert Jacks / Xerox / Melbourne / 1985

    Melbourne : the artist, 1985. Quarto, 295 x 220 mm, black buckram with silver lettering, unpaginated, being an artist’s book of photocopied (xeroxed) designs.   Provenance : the estate of Robert Jacks.    

  • Graham Fransella. Figures & landscapes. Paintings and prints 1984 - 2002 (deluxe edition)

    # 46654

    FRANSELLA, Graham

    Graham Fransella. Figures & landscapes. Paintings and prints 1984 – 2002 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2002. Folio, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 128, extensively illustrated, foreword by Edmund Capon, a mint copy housed in a grand clamshell box, lettered with design on the front panel, containing a similarly designed paper folio housing an original Fransella etching, Head, signed and limited to 100 copies. The deluxe edition, limited …

  • Rosalie Gascoigne / Colin McCahon : sense of place

    # 46622

    McCAHON, Colin; GASCOIGNE, Rosalie

    Rosalie Gascoigne / Colin McCahon : sense of place

    Sydney : Ivan Dougherty Gallery and Melbourne : The Ian Potter Gallery, 1990. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 64, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held “on the occasion of the Sesquicentenary of New Zealand, 1990”. Scarce.

  • Action Man Story

    # 46817

    HOWARD, Ian (1947 - )

    Action Man Story

    Montreal : the artist, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a hint of foxing), 40pp. with offset lithographed photographic images and text throughout. An important early experimental artist’s book created by the Australian artist while completing a master’s degree in Canada. Like much of his work, this book draws on Howard background in the military, it is …

  • S.T. Gill & his audiences

    # 46917

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    S.T. Gill & his audiences

    Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous …

  • Life's a beer

    # 46730

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    Life’s a beer

    Melbourne : Ross Books, 1984. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling marks) pp. 96, a very good copy. Ellis’ candid photographs of Australians with tinnies, stubbies, pots and schooners, middies, pints and slabs. Think Hawkie, Hoges and Sir Les Patterson.

  • Hans Heysen

    # 46781

    ANDREWS, Rebecca

    Hans Heysen

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated.  

  • John Krzywokulski : recent paintings (signed copy)

    # 46742

    KRZYWOKULSKI, John (1947 - )

    John Krzywokulski : recent paintings (signed copy)

    Melbourne : Southern Cross Galleries, c. 1971. Large quarto, illustrated wrappers (creased, previous owner’s name), pp. [4], portrait photograph, catalogue of 14 works, brief biography, long essay by John Reed on lower panel. Signed and inscribed by the artist on the first page. Scarce.

  • Adrian Feint flower paintings

    # 46725

    URE SMITH, Sydney (ed.)

    Adrian Feint flower paintings

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith, introduction by Tatlock Miller. Sydney: Ure Smith, 1948. Folio, cloth in dustjacket, light edge wear, pale foxing to endpapers, 78pp. illustrated in colour, catalogue of works. Limited to 1500 copies signed and dated by the artist. A very good copy.

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fifty-Nine

    # 46711

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fifty-Nine

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1933. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, 92pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, edges rubbed and a crack to upper hinge, else good. Features essay by Gavin Long on the Heysen loan exhibition; essay on S. Woodward Smith and Kenneth MacQueen …

  • No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    # 46687

    CULLEN, Jenny

    No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in storage since publication, still sealed in publisher’s plastic. Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting for six and a half years, first at the Julian Ashton …

  • Harley C. Griffiths, 1908-1981

    # 46631

    PERRY Peter

    Harley C. Griffiths, 1908-1981

    Castlemaine : Castlemaine Art Gallery &​ Historical Museum, 1987. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (rubbed), pp. 22, illustrated.

  • Dale Hickey : one hundred drawings

    # 46629

    [HICKEY, Dale]

    Dale Hickey : one hundred drawings

    Melbourne : Powell Street Gallery, 1991. Quarto, silver wrappers (lightly marked), pp 32. Exhibition catalogue with twenty pages of colour plate reproductions of selected works; introduction by Chris McAuliffe.

  • J. J. Hilder and contemporaries

    # 46615

    HILDER, J. J. et al.

    J. J. Hilder and contemporaries

    Watercolours from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1981. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly marked, pp. [20, illustrated. Works by J. J. Hilder, Sydney Long, Hans Heysen, Blamire Young and Norman Lindsay.

  • the mind of itself and the world

    # 46545

    FENNER, Brooke Shanti et al.

    the mind of itself and the world

    Northcote, Vic. : Light Projects, 2011. Octavo (210 x 150 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 108, illustrated; an excellent copy. Booklet produced in the wake of the mind of itself and the world, a collaborative project at Light Projects (Northcote, Melbourne), 15 August-4 September 2011, facilitated by Brooke Shanti Fenner, Oliver Cloke and Tahlia Jolly, with artists Laura …