Australian Artists Q-Z

  • The diaries of Fred Williams 1963 - 1970

    # 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 …

  • Searching for Gaia : the art of Guy Warren

    # 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 …

  • Master of stillness. Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940 - 2011

    # 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. …

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Forty. Arthur Streeton Number.

    # 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. …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • Stars in the river : the prints of Jessie Traill

    # 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 …

  • Lloyd Rees Drawings

    # 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.

  • Lloyd Rees etchings and lithographs

    # 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.

  • William Yang : Stories of Love and Death

    # 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 …

  • Midawarr | harvest : the art of Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley

    # 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 …

  • The flower hunter Ellis Rowan

    # 46988

    FULLERTON, Patricia and SMITH, Bernard

    The flower hunter Ellis Rowan

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. vi; 106, illustrated.

  • Violet Teague (signed copy)

    # 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, …

  • The art of H. Septimus Power

    # 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.

  • Aida Tomescu : Eden

    # 46791

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu : Eden

    Melbourne : Karen Woodbury Gallery and Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2010. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [28], illustrated..

  • Aida Tomescu : Milky Way

    # 46790

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu : Milky Way

    Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2012. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated.