Australian Women Artists
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# 47196
THOMAS, David.
Criss Canning : the pursuit of beauty (first edition)
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2007. First edition. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp 192, fully illustrated. First edition. Written and published to coincide with the artist’s retrospective exhibition at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, both standard and deluxe editions quickly sold out; as did all four editions. ‘David Thomas’ Monograph, tracing Criss Canning’s career as an …
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# 47190
NORTH, Marianne
A vision of Eden : the life and work of Marianne North
Preface by J.P.M. Brenan ; foreword by Anthony Huxley ; biographical note by Brenda E. Moon. Exeter : Webb & Bower, in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1980. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, maps to endppers, a few light marks to endpaper, light handling wear, pp. 240, illustrated. ‘Marianne North, an unmarried middle-aged Victorian …
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# 47162
SMITH, Jason
Cutting through time. Cressida Campbell, Margaret Preston, and the Japanese Print
Geelong : Geelong Gallery, 2024. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated. Fine copy. Catalogue for the exhibition of the same name. Quickly sold out. ‘This exceptionally beautiful Geelong Gallery-curated exhibition will examine the influence of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) on the famed contemporary Australian painter and printmaker, Cressida Campbell (born 1960), and on the …
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# 47043
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia (complete set)
Art in Australia. Series 1, No. 1 – Series 4, No. 6 (1916 – 1942). Completes set. Series 1 (11 issues, quarto), Series 2 (2 issues, large quarto), Series 3 (80 issues, quarto), Series 4 (6 issues, large quarto). Illustrated wrappers, occasional chipping and flecking, extensively illustrated, tipped-in plates, a very good set. The most …
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# 46883
FORD, Sue (1943-2009)
Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988
Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …
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# 47090
DEACON, Destiny (1957-2024)
Under the spell of the tall poppies : from the series “Oz” (1998)
Bubblejet print from Polaroid photograph, 32.0 x 26.0 cm (sheet 42.0 x 29.5 cm); printed by the artist, not signed; light crease to the right of centre, else fine; unframed. This image from Indigenous artist Destiny Deacon’s digitally-printed Oz series was originally issued in an edition of 15, in a large format. This smaller scale …
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# 24450
GIBBS, May (1877-1969)
Bib and Bub : their adventures.
Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto, publisher’s decorated cloth (rubbed along lower edge upper board), dust jacket with colour illustrations (very slight rubbing to extremities), pictorial endpapers, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to half-title, title page (small wet stamp of previous owner), pp. 79; (1), coloured panelled illustrations throughout; a fine copy. ‘Rare: …
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# 46886
HAMER, Heather (1885 - 1962)
Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs
Collected and illustrated by Heather Hamer. With a Foreword by Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, K.C.M.G. Ceylon : The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd., 1935. Quarto, gilt-lettered diced road, lightly scuffed and worn, pp. [36], illustrated with twelve full page black and white illustrations by Hamer, with tissue guards, illustrating in modernist style the nursery rhymes. Heather …
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# 47115
NORRIE, Susan (1953 - )
Susan Norrie : paintings 1986-87
Épernay, France : Moët & Chandon, [1987]. Catalogue of Susan Norrie, first recipient for the Moët & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship for Contemporary Art. Exhibition held L’Hotel Pozzo di Borgo, Paris, Nov., 1987, Galerie Passages, Troyes, 9 Jan.-28 Fév., 1988, Foire d’Art Contemporain, Stockholm, 16-21 Mars, 1988.
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# 47114
MAY, Anna-Marie (1965 - )
Anne-Marie May 1989-2001
Sydney : the artist, 2001. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated.
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# 47116
TOMESCU, Aida
Aida Tomescu : three catalogues
Aida Tomescu. Paintings and drawings. November 2 – 27, 1999. Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 1999. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, folding card, pp. [8], illustrated, biography. Aida Tomescu. New paintings and etchings. 15 November 17 December 2000. Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 2000. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, folding card, pp. [8], illustrated, biography. Price list and invitation card. Aida …
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# 47139
CROMBIE, Isobel et a.
Brave New World. Australia 1930s
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, laminated boards, corners a little bumped, pp. 198, extensively illustrated. Includes works by Albert Tucker, Percy Leason, Daniel Vassilieff, Noel Counihan, Max Dupain, Dorothy Thornhill, Fred Ward, Sybil Craig, William Ricketts, Margaret Preston, Arthur Murch, Elioth Gruner, Freda Robertshaw, Albert Namatjira, Lionel Lindsay et al.
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# 47112
CRAWFORD, Marian (1955 - )
Picturing the island
Melbourne : the artist, 2016. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with wraparound title band, pp. [52], illustrated. A contemporary photobook created by Melbourne artist Marian Crawford, drawing on her memories growing up on Babana (contemporary Kiribati) and using historical photographs of what was at the time known as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. ‘Picturing the Island takes …
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# 47095
RADFORD, Ron and HYLTON, Jane
Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945
Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000. Quarto, laminated wrappers (light handling wear), pp. 144, illustrated throughout with colour plates of works by the artists Jean Appleton, Gwen Barringer, Clarice Beckett, Dorrit Black, Elise Blumann, Stella Bowen, Lina Bryans, Ethel Carrick (Fox), Dora Chapman, Sybil Craig, Grace Crowley, Anne Dangar, Bessie Davidson, Agnes Goodsir, …
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# 47072
HABY, Gracia and JENNISON, Louise [Gracia & Louise]
Those two daring pirates
[Melbourne] : the artists, 2004. Artist’s book, 180 mm tall, 22 page concertina offset lithograph with original hand colouring, bound in coloured fabric, initialled by the artists. Printed in an edition of 30 copies with one artist’s proof, this is copy 13/30. A colourful celebration of the cultural life of New Orleans, Louisiana. “[These two …
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# 47071
[KNGWARREYE]. NEALE, Margo, ELLWOOD, Tony, NISHINO, Hanako, et al.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye : utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Canberra, Australia and Japan : National Museum of Australia/ The National Museum of Art, Osaka/ The National Art Centre, Tokyo/ The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2008. Quarto, boards in pictorial dust jacket, very lightly rubbed, pp. 256, illustrated throughout in colour, exhibition catalogue in English and Japanese language for the travelling exhibition of Australian Indigenous artist Emily …