Australian Impressionists
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# 51330
BURKE, Janine
Australian women artists 1840 – 1940
Melbourne : Greenhouse, 1980. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light edge wear and handling marks), pp. 188, illustrated. Includes biographical details on colonial, impressionist and modernist painters. Includes works by Grace Crowley, Clarice Beckett, Ethel Spowers, Margaret Preston, Eveline Syme, A.M.E. Bale, Jean Bellette, Dorrit Black, Lina Bryans, Sybil Craig, Ethel Carrick Fox, Bessie …
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# 51276
MCCUBBIN, Alexander
The art & life of Walter Withers
Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, publisher, [1919]. Plain card imprinted wrappers with yapp edges, pp. 30, mild foxing throughout, illustrated with tipped-in monochrome plates. Brief biography of the artist Walter Withers.
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# 51275
TAYLOR, Stephanie (1899-1974)
Exhibition of paintings by Stephanie Taylor. Velasquez Gallery, 100 Bourke Street, Melbourne, 10th May to 20th May.
Melbourne : Velasquez Gallery, [c.1950]. Exhibition catalogue, single large octavo sheet folded into 4 pp, illustrated cover, list of 49 works with prices in guineas; a fine copy. A scarce catalogue from the influential Velasquez Gallery, located in the basement at the rear of Tye’s Furniture Building, 100 Bourke Street, Melbourne. ‘The manager was painter/printmaker, …
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# 51269
COLQUHOUN, Alexander
Frederick McCubbin : a consideration
Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, n.d. [c. 1920]. Octavo, lettered wrappers, unpaginated, tipped-in plates. A lovely little book on the impressionist. 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 South …
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# 51268
[LAMBERT, George W.]
Lambert memorial exhibition
September 25th until October 15th, 1930. Sydney : Anthony Horderns’ Fine Art Gallery, 1930. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 28, foreword on the artist, catalogue of 140 works by Lambert including the media of oil paintings, pencil drawings, unfinished works/sketches and sculpture, 12 colour and black & white reproductions of the artist’s works, some light foxing, …
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# 51262
[ARTHUR STREETON]
Streeton’s show of the sunlit suburbs of Sydney
Cup Week only. Open from 31 Oct to 5 Nov 1921, Athenaeum Hall. Melbourne : Atlas Press, 1921. Octavo, printed wrappers (lightly marked, horizontal crease), 4 pp. List of 10 works. Scarce.
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# 51230
HALL, Bernard (1859 - 1935)
Illustrated catalogue of paintings and drawings by L. Bernard Hall
Exhibited in the Atheneum 188 Collins Street Melbourne. 15th September to 1st October 1910. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. [16], illustrated in black and white, catalogue of 70 artworks with prices. A fine copy of a scarce and substantial catalogue.
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# 51223
ALEXANDER, Jane
Ambrose Patterson : his life & art (signed copy)
[Mount Martha, VIC] : Alexander Calder Visual Arts, 2026. First edition. Quarto (325 x 255 mm), illustrated boards, pp. [x]; 252, fully illustrated in colour. New copy, personally signed by the author on the title page. The first authoritative monograph on the significant Australian-American modernist — from bohemian Paris at the fin de siècle to …
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# 51135
[BUNNY, Rupert]
Rupert C.W. Bunny 1864-1947
Brisbane : Philip Bacon Galleries, 2000. Square octavo, illustrated wrappers, spine sunned, pp 35. All pieces exhibited reproduced in full colour.
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# 51125
TIMMS, Peter
Sir John Longstaff 1862 – 1941
an exhibition prepared by Shepparton Art Gallery for Arts Victoria 75. Shepparton : Shepparton Art Gallery, 1975. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated.
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# 51116
BUTLER, Roger and NODRUM, Charles
Jean P. Sutherland 1902/1978
Melbourne : Deutsher Galleries, 1979. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, [pp 32]. Exhibition catalogue illustrated in black and white.
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# 51080
FOX, Len
E. Phillips Fox: notes and recollections (signed by Len Fox)
Sydney : Len Fox, 1969. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 32, signed and inscribed by the author Len Fox, very good copy. 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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# 51051
RANDALL, R. J. (1869 - 1906)
The Randall Art Gallery and School of Painting, South Brisbane : catalogue of works in oils, water colours, pastels, black and white &c., &c. by the late R.J.Randall ; illustrated.
South Brisbane : South Brisbane City Council, circa 1910. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 89, illustrations, a few marks and stains and adhesion damage to pp. 16-17. Scarce catalogue of over 600 works of the Herkomer trained Brisbane artist who died at the age of 37, introduced by a twelve-page appreciation, ‘R.J.Randall. The Australian Painter-Poet’, by …
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# 50978
HAMMOND, Victoria and PEERS, Juliet
Completing the picture : women artists and the Heidelberg era
Melbourne : Artmoves, 1992. First edition. Quarto (310 x 220 mm), illustrated wrappers, 88pp., illustrated in colour and b/w.; light handling marks, a fine copy from the library of Australian art historian and author Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page. Excellent reference on a lesser researched school of painters, including A.M.E. Bale, …
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# 50902
GALBALLY, Ann
Charles Conder. The last bohemian (scarce hardcover edition)
Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2003. Octavo, boards in slightly edge worn dustjacket, pp. xvii; 312, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies, this is the scarce hardback edition.
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# 50564
LINDSAY, Sir Lionel
Three generations of painters (signed by Julian Ashton, Howard Ashton and Richard Ashton)
Sydney : “Blaxland” Galleries, Farmer’s, [1938]. Exhibition catalogue, single sheet, folded, old creases, signed on the upper panel by Julian Ashton, Howard Ashton and Richard Ashton, catalogue of works with prices, foreword by Lionel Lindsay. Scarce. Paintings include ‘Visit of the American Fleet to Sydney in 1908’.