Australian Artists E-K
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# 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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# 46913
CALABY, John (editor)
The Hunter sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90
By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet ; general editor John Calaby. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [viii], 251, illustrated with exquisite paintings recording the fauna and flora around Sydney and on Norfolk Island.
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# 47006
HURLEY, Frank
Hurley’s Australia : myth, dream, reality
Selected and introduced by John Thompson. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1999. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. ix, 85, illustrated.
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# 46983
BAIL, Murray
Fairweather
Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2009. Quarto, plum cloth boards in dustjacket, light edge wear and a little canted, 280 pp, illustrated, a very good copy. Revised and expanded edition of Murray Bail’s definitive work on the life and art of Ian Fairweather. Scarce in the market.
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# 47183
[FRANK, Dale]
Dale Frank : Adieu
Melbourne : Deutscher Brunswick Street, 1990. Quarto, gold wrappers with green lettering, pp 53. Illustrates all 21 works exhibited in colour.
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# 46542
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
VII (Sculptural lithograph)
Lithograph, 18 x 23 cms, signed lower right ‘Jacks 87 – 89’, numbered lower left 2/10, and titled lower centre ‘VII’, framed in black timber (43 x 46 cms). A fine original graphic by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s estate. In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria staged …
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# 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 …
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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.
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# 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 …
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# 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 …
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# 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.
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# 46781
ANDREWS, Rebecca
Hans Heysen
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated.
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# 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.
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# 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.