Australian Artists Q-Z
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# 47083
McCAUGHEY, Patrick
The diaries of Fred Williams 1963 – 1970
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2024. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. ix, 649, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘A generous and insightful glimpse into the private life and creative process of a giant of Australian landscape painting Fred Williams kept a daily diary from 1963 until his death in 1982. Disciplined and meticulous, he recorded life …
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# 47074
LYNTON, Norbert et al
Searching for Gaia : the art of Guy Warren
By Norbert Lynton & John McDonald ; Deborah Hart ; with an autobiographical account by the artist. Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2003. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 192, illustrated. New copy of an out of print book. ‘Offers an artist’s view of life and art in Sydney during the better part of the 20th …
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# 47070
PEARCE, Barry
Master of stillness. Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940 – 2011
Adelaide : The Wakefield Press, 2012 (2021 reprint). Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 136, illustrated. New copy. Master of Stillness illuminates the vision of the most celebrated of Australian expatriate artists, from his beginnings in Adelaide until his last major composition painted in Italy, where he lived for five decades until his death in 2013. …
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# 47067
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Forty. Arthur Streeton Number.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a fine copy (some loss/splitting on spine and rust stains from staples). Highlighting the Streeton’s iconic Australian works, this edition includes essays by Lionel Lindsay and J.S. McDonald. …
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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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# 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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# 47038
TRAILL, Jessie
Stars in the river : the prints of Jessie Traill
edited by Roger Butler ; with essays by Tim Bonyhady, Rebecca Edwards, Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax and Macushla Robinson. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Gallery of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. Includes a reproduction of Traill’s bookplate. This eagerly awaited publication celebrates the artistic career of one of Australia’s most important printmakers of the …
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# 47021
[REES]. KLEPAC, Lou.
Lloyd Rees Drawings
Sydney : Australian Artist Editions, 1978. Oblong quarto, cloth in dustjacket, spine sunned, 128 pp. illustrated throughout, lightly foxed to edges and preliminaries. Housed in a buckram slipcase.
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# 47019
[REES]. KOLENBERG, Hendrik
Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs
A catalogue raisonne by Hendrik Kolenberg with an introduction by Lou Klepac. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 1986. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp. 112, scholarly text on Lloyd Rees’ life and work written by Hendrik Kolenberg, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. A fine copy.
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# 47015
GREHAN, Helena and SCHEER, Edward
William Yang : Stories of Love and Death
Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2016. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 190, illustrated. New copy. Acclaimed photographer William Yang has captured the zeitgeist like no-one else, providing a very personal insight into the evolution of Mardi Gras, the spectre of AIDS, Sydney’s theatrical and social scenes, and changing notions of ‘belonging’ in multicultural Australia. In this ground …
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# 46991
WOLSELEY, John et al.
Midawarr | harvest : the art of Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley
Edited by Will Stubbs and John Wolseley. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia, 2018. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 207, illustrated. Two artists, two completely different approaches, but one abiding passion — to celebrate the natural bounty to be found in the floodplains, swamps, savannas and woodlands of northern Australia. Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley, her …
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# 46988
FULLERTON, Patricia and SMITH, Bernard
The flower hunter Ellis Rowan
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. vi; 106, illustrated.
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# 46685
CLARK, Jane and DRUCE, Felicity
Violet Teague (signed copy)
Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 128, published in conjunction with the Violet Teague retrospective exhibition (1999), foreword by Professor Jaynie Anderson, contains 52 colour and black & white plates of Teague’s works, introduction by Jane Clark, essays by Felicity Druce, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Anita Callaway, Kay Vernon, Jeanette Hoorn, …
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# 46889
[SEPTIMUS POWER, Harold]. MIDDLETON, Max
The art of H. Septimus Power
Adelaide : Rigby Limited, 1974. Quarto, cloth covered boards with illustrated dustjacket (spine sunned), pp. 121, occasional light foxing, owner’s label to title page, richly illustrated throughout with 46 colour plates and 8 black & white plates of the artist’s paintings. A good copy.
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# 46791
TOMESCU, Aida
Aida Tomescu : Eden
Melbourne : Karen Woodbury Gallery and Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2010. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [28], illustrated..
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# 46790
TOMESCU, Aida
Aida Tomescu : Milky Way
Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2012. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated.