Australian Artists Q-Z
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# 50582
HAYSOM, Rob
Arnold Shore : pioneer modernist
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. As new. Nearly every history of Australian modern art, and monographs dedicated to artists of the period, will refer to the writings of Arnold Shore. Deakin University academic, Rob Haysom, explores the background of the artist, the difficulties of his time, and the development …
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# 50548
SMITH, Geoffrey
Albert Tucker : masterpieces from the Albert & Barbara Tucker Foundation
Melbourne : Smith & Singer, 2020. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, dustjacket, pp. 56, illustrated. Scarce.
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# 50547
SMITH, Geoffrey
Albert Tucker : images of modern evil
Melbourne : Sotheby’s Australia, 2019. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth, dustjacket, pp. 56, illustrated. Price list enclosed. Scarce.
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# 50508
SMITH, Geoffrey
Arthur Streeton 1867 – 1943
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1995. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, light handling marks, edges slightly foxed, pp. 200 with extensive curatorial research and colour reproductions. A very good example of the scholarly catalogue which accompanied Streeton’s major touring retrospective.
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# 50506
MCGRATH, Sandra
Brett Whiteley
Sydney : Bay Books, 1992 (reprint). Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (some light edge wear), pp. 232, illustrated throughout.
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# 50496
[VASSILIEFF]. ST JOHN MOORE, Felicity.
Vassilieff and his art.
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2012. (First published 1982). Quarto, gatefold wrappers, 232 pp., illustrated. Mint copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap.
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# 50478
McCAUGHEY, Patrick
The diaries of Fred Williams 1963 – 1970
Melbourne : The 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 …
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# 50476
VIDLER, Edward A. RAMSAY, Hugh.
The art of Hugh Ramsay
Melbourne: The Fine Art Society, [1918?]. Quarto, titled card wrappers (spine slightly sunned, short splits at head and tail), 28 pp. with tipped-in colour plates and catalogue. Scarce, limited to 500 copies.
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# 50475
[TUCKER, Albert]. MOLLISON, James and MINCHIN, Jan.
Albert Tucker : a retrospective
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1990. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 120 pp. illustrated in colour. A fine monograph on the Angry Penguin.
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# 50460
[WHITELEY, Brett]. MCGRATH, Sandra
Brett Whiteley (deluxe signed edition)
Sydney : Bay Books, 1979. Quarto, full leather with gilt embossed signature in slipcase (lightly marked), pp. 232 fully illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 200 copies signed by the artist Brett Whiteley, presented in a special deluxe binding (this is copy 45), pale foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy of a rare edition. …
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# 50428
VASSILIEFF, Danila
Danila Vassilieff (1898 – 1958)
Sydney : Macquarie Galleries, 1973. Octavo, folded sheet (lightly foxed), cover illustration, pp. 4, catalogue of 33 works with prices, biography, a very good copy.
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# 50415
[SMART]. ALLEN, Christopher
Jeffrey Smart. Unpublished Paintings 1940 – 2007 (signed copy for Peter Churcher)
Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 285, extensively illustrated. This copy signed on the half title by the artist ‘For Peter, a fond friend & beautiful painter. As ever, Jeffrey Smart’. A meaningful inscription from one major Australian artist to another.
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# 50105
COX, Emma Busowsky
Daughters of the sun. Christian Waller & Klytie Pate (deluxe edition)
Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2018. Folio, gilt-lettered green cloth, pp. [iv]; 117, (3), fully illustrated, including fold out plates. Lavishly produced exhibition catalogue for the first major retrospective on the two Melbourne artists (aunt and niece) in several decades. Includes Waller’s magnificent art deco publications The great breath and The gates of dawn as well as the …
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# 50326
CLARK, Jane and DRUCE, Felicity
Violet Teague
Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, 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 …
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# 50305
WOLSELEY, John
John Wolseley. Travelling west to Sunset Tank
Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, quarto, folded card, pp. [6], illustrated.
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# 50307
ADAM, Rosemary
Robert Rooney : the Kovalevsky paintings
Melbourne : Tolarno Galleries, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Invite and price list enclosed.