Australian Artists Q-Z

  • Felix Tuszynski. Dreaming time : paintings and drawings

    # 42473

    TUSZYNSKI, Felix

    Felix Tuszynski. Dreaming time : paintings and drawings

    Melbourne : Jewish Museum of Australia, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated. Paintings and drawings from the Australian artist, a Polish holocaust survivor.

  • Spowers & Syme

    # 42428

    NOORDHUIS-FAIRFAX, Sarina

    Spowers & Syme

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2021. Quarto, illustrated papered boards, pp. 96, extensively illustrated. Spowers & Syme celebrates the artistic friendship of Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme. Their prints, drawings and paintings – remarkable for their expressive energy – capture the zeitgeist of the interwar years. This beautifully illustrated catalogue traces their …

  • Arthur Streeton memorial exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, 5th September to 7th October 1944

    # 42317

    [STREETON, Arthur]

    Arthur Streeton memorial exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, 5th September to 7th October 1944

    [Melbourne] : National Gallery of Victoria, 1944. Large octavo, printed wrappers (lightly marked), 16 pp, illustrated (6 black and white, 3 colour plates). Essays by R. H. Croll and Lionel Lindsay. Lists 135 works.

  • Mark Schaller 'Wildfire'

    # 42316

    SCHALLER, Mark

    Mark Schaller ‘Wildfire’

    Melbourne : Scott Livesey Galleries, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, folded card, quarto, pp. [8], biography by David Thomas, illustrated.

  • Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fourteen. Xmas Number

    # 17622

    Sydney Ure Smith

    Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Fourteen. Xmas Number

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1925. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (bookseller sticker on recto wrapper), unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, some discolouration to spine and verso wrapper. A special Christmas Edition with an essay by William Moore on the revival in New Zeland; …

  • Sydney Diary 1974 - 1984

    # 42287

    YANG, William

    Sydney Diary 1974 – 1984

    Sydney : James Fraser, 1984. Folio, boards in dustjacket (spine sunned), 143 pp., previous owner’s name neatly written on endpaper, small spot of foxing to title page, illustrated throughout. William Yang’s honest and unabashed portraits of Sydney in the 1970s and 80s record a time of cultural renewal and new identity. Yang’s photographs record the …

  • Aida Tomescu

    # 42247

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu

    Melbourne : Niagara Publishing, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 28, colour illustrations throughout. Exhibition catalogue of 21 works.

  • Aida Tomescu : Campi Flegrei

    # 42246

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu : Campi Flegrei

    Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated. Essay by Terence Maloon.

  • William Robinson

    # 42232

    [ROBINSON]. FERN, Lynn

    William Robinson

    Sydney: Craftsman House, 1995. Foreword by Betty Churcher. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, 271pp., illustrated throughout. An early monograph on Robinson, a fine copy.

  • Jeffrey Smart. A man is illogical on horseback; but in a satellite, surreal

    # 42183

    QUARTERMAINE, Peter

    Jeffrey Smart. A man is illogical on horseback; but in a satellite, surreal

    Foreword by Germaine Greer. Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1983. Quarto, cloth bound boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 131, colour plates (many tipped-in), a very good copy.

  • The 9 by 5 impression exhibition (facsimile catalogue)

    # 42133

    The 9 by 5 impression exhibition (facsimile catalogue)

    The 9 by 5 impression exhibition : opened August 17, 1889 at Buxton’s Rooms.  Decorations lent and arranged by Messrs Cullis Hill. [Castlemaine : Peter and John Perry, c. 1984]. Duodecimo, pp. 16, self-wrappers after Charles Conder, as new copy.  A facsimile of the original 1889 exhibition catalogue, taked from the C. D. Richardson example.

  • Ritual intimacy.

    # 42132

    THOMPSON, Christian (1978 - )

    Ritual intimacy.

    Caulfield East, Vic. : Monash University Museum of Art, 2017. Reprinted 2019. Small quarto (230 x 170 mm), pictorial card covers, 128 pp, 92 pages of colour plates of indigenous multidisciplinary artist Christian Thompson’s work; catalogue essays by Charlotte Day, Brian Catling and Marina Warner; Christian Thompson and Hetti Perkins in conversation; an as new …

  • The gates of dawn

    # 41925

    WALLER, Christian (née Yandell)

    The gates of dawn

    a book made for the young by Christian Waller. Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1977. Quarto, boards bound in red cloth with gilt lettering (slightly bowed and flecked), an illustrated edition by Richard Griffin of the original edition by The Golden Arrow Press (1932), limited to 1000 copies, signed and numbered by Klytie Plate, art nouveau …

  • From another shore. Prose by Rudi Krausmann. Drawings by Brett Whiteley (signed presentation copy)

    # 41884

    KRAUSMANN, Rudi; WHITELEY, Brett

    From another shore. Prose by Rudi Krausmann. Drawings by Brett Whiteley (signed presentation copy)

    Sydney : Wild & Woolley, 1975. Octavo, illustrated wrappers with cover illustration by Brett Whiteley, pp. 78, illustrated throughout with drawings by Brett Whiteley. Signed presentation copy to Sydney bookseller Louella Kerr and her husband Australian author Gerard Windsor and their family, inscribed ‘For Louella et famille, Merry Christmas ’88, Rudi ’88’.

  • Alan Sumner screenprints

    # 28520

    BUTLER, Roger

    Alan Sumner screenprints

    Melbourne : Eastgate Gallery, 1993. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers (light crease), pp. 99, illustrated. A catalogue based on the collection in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.  

  • Oliffe Richmond : a retrospective exhibition 1919-77

    # 42011

    RICHMOND, Oliffe

    Oliffe Richmond : a retrospective exhibition 1919-77

    Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 1989. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 28, illustrated.