Australian Artists Q-Z

  • Albert John Sherman : Cornish Australian artist (presentation copy)

    # 41852

    CAMMACK, Wiliam F. J.

    Albert John Sherman : Cornish Australian artist (presentation copy)

    Penrith, N.S.W. : W.F.J. Cammack, c2005. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 178, illustrated. Presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author on the endpaper.

  • Jeffrey Smart : paintings and studies 2004-2006 (signed copy)

    # 41630

    [SMART, Jeffrey] ALLEN, Christopher

    Jeffrey Smart : paintings and studies 2004-2006 (signed copy)

    Exhibition catalogue: Melbourne 28 September – 8 October 2006, Sydney 17 October – 4 November 2006. Collingwood, Vic : Australian Galleries, 2006. 53 pp, colour and b/w illustrations, bibliography, signed by Smart on the title page

  • Albert Tucker. Adelaide Arts Festival - March 1966

    # 39952

    [TUCKER, Albert]

    Albert Tucker. Adelaide Arts Festival – March 1966

    Adelaide : Bonython Art Gallery, 1966. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 4, catalogue of 38 works, black-and-white plates; very good.

  • John Young : the double ground paintings

    # 41794

    YOUNG, John

    John Young : the double ground paintings

    Sydney : Australian Art Promotions, 1995. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 68, illustrated.

  • Old colonial by-ways (deluxe edition, presentation copy)

    # 28995

    URE SMITH, Sydney and BERTIE, Charles

    Old colonial by-ways (deluxe edition, presentation copy)

    Sydney : Art in Australia, 1928. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards (somewhat sunned and flecked), essay, 55 plates (some in colour, tipped-in), the deluxe edition, limited to 40 copies, with an original signed by Ure Smith. Presentation copy with signed inscription from Sydney Ure Smith to Maie Casey, dated 1940. Rare.

  • Intersections. Photographs from the series the cross and the matrix

    # 13695

    LETI, Bruno; STEELE, Professor Peter

    Intersections. Photographs from the series the cross and the matrix

    Melbourne : the artist, 2006. Small quarto, card wrappers with blind etched covers, unpaginated, essay by Peter Steele, eight original c-type photograph by the artist tipped-in. Limited to 15 signed copies. 

  • Tim Storrier : a survey

    # 41652

    STORRIER, Tim

    Tim Storrier : a survey

    Orange : Orange Regional Art Gallery, 1993. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly foxed), pp. [16], illustrated. Essay by Elizabeth Sarks.

  • Bryan Westwood

    # 41636

    WESTWOOD, Bryan

    Bryan Westwood

    Adelaide : Bonython Art Gallery, 1970. Exhibition catalogue, folded card, cover images (portrait of Ron Robertson-Swann), catalogue of 39 works, prices.

  • Albert Tucker

    # 41649

    [TUCKER, Albert]

    Albert Tucker

    Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art of Australia, 1960. Octavo, illustrated self wrappers, pp. 12, statement by Tucker, six black & white plates of reproductions of works by Tucker and photograph of Tucker, catalogue of 50 works, short biography and calendar of exhibitions, a very good copy.

  • The Eric Thake Picture Book (deluxe edition, signed with original photograph)

    # 41320

    SUMMONS, Elizabeth

    The Eric Thake Picture Book (deluxe edition, signed with original photograph)

    Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1978. Quarto, gilt-lettered full morocco in illustrated dustjacket (toned, small chips), unpaginated, contains numerous plates reproducing Thake’s linocuts. Limited to 1000 copies. This is one of 20 special copies with a pasted on slip to the colophon ‘Nos. 1L – 20L are bound in full leather and contain 5 loose plates …

  • Perspective : a text book for the use of schools and colleges (signed copy)

    # 41515

    SHIRLOW, John A. T.

    Perspective : a text book for the use of schools and colleges (signed copy)

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 1932. Oblong quarto, lettered cloth (small stain, corners rubbed), small owner’s name to pastedown, errata slip (offsetting), corner cut to front free endpaper, signed by Shirlow on the title page, pp. xii; 103, diagrams and illustrations, occasional light foxing, a very good copy. Text boo for student artists by noted Melbourne artist …

  • The art of Blamire Young

    # 41449

    BRUCE, J. F.

    The art of Blamire Young

    Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1921. Quarto, quarter-cloth over papered boards, pp. 38, plus 36 tipped-in colour plates, in the original presentation box (edges rubbed, tear to one edge). A very good copy.

  • Artists of the Western Desert : 2006 - 2011 (deluxe edition)

    # 40576

    WEIGHT, Greg and MCGREGOR, Ken

    Artists of the Western Desert : 2006 – 2011 (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, blind embossed ochre cloth in cloth slipcase with draw ribbon, pp. 199, extensively illustrated. The deluxe edition limited to only 50 copies, specially bound, with an original signed etching by Mrs Bennett (Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa), numbered in an edition of 50 and signed with her monogram ‘X’. A book of portrait …

  • Not quite straight (Signed copy)

    # 41337

    SMART, Jeffrey (1921 - 2013)

    Not quite straight (Signed copy)

    Melbourne : William Heinemann Australia, 1996. Large octavo, boards with dust jacket, 464 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Memoirs from one of Australia’s foremost artists working in precisionist depictions of urban landscapes. Signed by artist on title page.

  • Arthur Streeton and the Australian coast

    # 41170

    [STREETON, Arthur]

    Arthur Streeton and the Australian coast

    Melbourne : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2004. Quarto, green wrappers with illustrated front, lightly creased, pp 40, colour illustrations throughout. Exhibition catalogue with small essay about each region painted.

  • Signed photographic portrait of the artist John Shirlow

    # 40640

    [SHIRLOW, John 1869-1936]; MONTEATH STUDIO

    Signed photographic portrait of the artist John Shirlow

    Circa 1913. Carbon print photograph, 130 x 100 mm, laid down on board mount with imprint of Monteath, Melb., inscribed on mount ‘To R.H. Croll with sincere regards, John Shirlow. Octr. 1913‘, the carbon print in fine condition (one tiny blemish at upper left edge), the mount with some very light foxing scattered across the …