Australian Artists Q-Z
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# 36722
STRACHAN, David
A survey by David Strachan 1955 – 1968
Brisbane : The Johnstone Gallery, 1968. Oblong quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 4, catalogue of 48 works. Foreword by Daniel Thomas.
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# 36463
BABINGTON, Jaklyn (editor)
Ramesh
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd, 2022. Quarto, laminated illustrated boards, pp. 368, illustrated. New copy. The first major monograph on the boundary-pushing work of painter and sculptor, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran. Bursting with energy and life force, this visual cornucopia celebrates the work of Sri Lankan Australian sculptor and painter, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, …
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# 36369
WOLSELEY, John
Nomadism. Twelve years in Australia – paintings and drawings (signed copy)
Melbourne : University Gallery, University of Melbourne, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 44, illustrated. Signed and inscribed by John Wolseley.
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# 36299
WHITELEY, Brett (1939-1992)
[BRETT WHITELEY] Notebook.
[Sydney : the artist, 1973]. Folio, illustrated card covers, 8 pp, printed in black and red ink with one small illustration in colour, a very good copy. The original edition of Whiteley’s notes for the painting Alchemy (1972-73). A facsimile edition was published by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2006. Copies are …
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# 35929
SIBLEY, Irena (1944 - 2009)
Rainbow. 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts.
Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1980. First edition. Folio (545 x 380 mm), quarter-morocco over silver-lettered buckram, title label to spine, 20 original hand coloured lino-cuts (each signed and numbered), additional lino-cut title page, three additional proof linocuts loosely enclose. Limited to 67 signed copies of which 60 were for sale, this is copy number 4. …
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# 36014
[SMART]. ALLEN, Christopher
Jeffrey Smart. Unpublished Paintings 1940 – 2007
Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 285, extensively illustrated. The first four pages are loosening, which is a common binding fault with this publication.
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# 35602
SELENITSCH, Alex
Delta blocks
Melbourne : the artist, 2009. Small quarto, diet black wrappers, pp. [8], graphically designed text. Artist’s book limited to 26 copies.
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# 36179
PEARCE, Barry
Jeffrey Smart. Paintings and studies 1993 – 1998 (signed copy)
Sydney : Australian Galleries, 1998. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Signed and inscribed by Jeffrey Smart on the upper panel. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery of …
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# 35968
SHIRLOW, John (1869 - 1936)
The “Melbourne Set”. Etchings by John Shirlow
Melbourne : Edward A. Vidler, 1920. Folio, gilt-lettered papered boards (a little marked), cloth spine and rope tie, light foxing to endpapers, Foreword by John Shirlow, signed colophon, six original etchings, each signed and numbered in pencil, tipped in, with captioned title labels, a fine copy. The list of plates are: Melbourne from the East …
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# 33477
COOK, Hume; YANDELL, Christian (artist)
Australian fairy tales.
With illustrations by Christian Yandell. Melbourne : J. Howlett-Ross, 1925. Quarto, decorated cloth, in the rare illustrated dustjacket (edge tears and chips at head and foot of spine), previous owner’s name to endpaper, 140 pp., tipped-in colour frontispiece, light foxing to preliminaries and edges, colour and black and white plates by Christian Yandell (later Waller). …
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# 18120
BROWN, Judy; SHAW, Roderick (1915-1992), illustrator
The garden of Edens / by Judy Brown ; illustrated by Roderick Shaw.
[Sydney] : Imprinted by Richard Edwards & Roderick Shaw at the Barn on the Hill over St. Columbkille’s, [1939]. Quarto, vibrant patterned cloth with paper printed label to upper board, spine a little sunned, pp. 34, illustrated with seven colour linocuts, line drawings and a handcoloured frontispiece by Shaw; a fine copy. One of the …
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# 35984
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009); SIBLEY, Andrew (1933- )
The calming of Harry
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1987. ONE OF ONLY TWELVE. ‘The first edition of “The calming of Harry” is limited to ten numbered copies and two artist’s proof copies. This edition is handwritten on French “lana” paper and the illustrations which are hand printed on Japanese mulberry paper are each individually coloured by …
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# 35983
SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)
When the sun took the colour away. (Richard Griffin’s copy)
Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1987. ‘The first edition … is limited to fifteen numbered copies. The text and illustrations were cut and hand-coloured by Irena Sibley and printed by Benedict Sibley. This book is copy No. fourteen [signed in pen] Irena Sibley, 1987.’ Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and …
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# 35411
[WHITELEY]. PEARCE, Barry, ROBERTSON, Bryan and WHITELEY, Wendy.
Brett Whiteley : art & life (presentation copy from Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley)
Sydney : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995 (reprinted 2004). Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 240, contains 180 colour and 40 monochrome plates, foreword by Edmund Capon, text by Bryan Robertson, Barry Pearce and an interview between Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley. A very good copy. This copy inscribed from Barry Pearce ‘For …
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# 35122
REID, Terry (1942 - )
Mildura broadcast
Mildura, Victoria : Mildura Arts Centre, 1978. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (with a photograph of a Pitjantjatjara child by David Moore), pp. 54, illustrated. Terry Reid is a Canadian born artist who studied at the Vancouver School of Art and later moved to Sydney, Australia. He participated in the influential Mildura Sculpture Triennials in the late …
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# 35302
WHISSON, Ken (1927 - 2022)
Ken Whisson : paintings and drawings.
Sydney : Watters Gallery, 1989. Coil bound exhibition catalogue printed on photo paper, 10 x 22 cos, 11 leaves. Scarce.