Australian Women Artists
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# 47005
[COTTON]. ENNIS, Helen
Olive Cotton Photographer
Photographs and captions by Olive Cotton, with an introduction by Helen Ennis and a personal memoir by Sally McInerney. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2005 (reprint). Folio, illustrated wrappers, 72pp. illustrated by Cotton’s superb black and white photography.
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# 47004
ENNIS, Helen; McINERNEY, Sally
Olive Cotton : photographer
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1995. Octavo, illustrated boards, 71pp. Monograph that explores the photography of Olive Cotton, prominent modernist photographer, and one of Australia’s most prominent female artists of the time. With introduction by Helen Ennis and personal memoir by Sally McInerney.
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# 46999
AMBRUS, Caroline (editor)
The unseen art scene : 32 Australian women artists
Canberra : Irrepressible Press, 1995. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. Profiles 32 lesser well known Australian women artists.
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# 46989
HART, Deborah
Emily Kame Kngwarreye : paintings from 1989 – 1995. Works from the Delmore Collection
Canberra : Parliament House, 1995. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. [20], illustrated. Essay by Deborah Hart. Very scarce and early publication on Kngwarreye, preceding all the monographs on her.
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# 46988
FULLERTON, Patricia and SMITH, Bernard
The flower hunter Ellis Rowan
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. vi; 106, illustrated.
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# 46975
TAYLOR, Elena et al.
Australian impressionists in France
Melbourne, Victoria : National Gallery of Victoria, 2013. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. xiv, 177, illustrated. Australian Impressionists in France provides a new perspective on one of the best-known and loved periods in Australian art. It reveals for the first time the extent of Australian artists’ participation in the global movement of Impressionism, and examines …
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# 46967
OLSEN, Penny
Collecting ladies. Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated cards, very light handling marks, pp. 238, illustrated. Scare. “Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-1896), the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for ‘lady’ plant collectors. While only about ten per cent of Mueller’s astounding 3,000-strong network …
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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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# 46933
[LINDSAY, Ruby]. "Celt"
The cynic’s autograph book No. 2
Illustrations by Ruby Lind. London : Gay & Hancock, 1913. Duodecimo, decorated boards, pp. 95, illustrations. A book of pithy phrases with space for supporters to sign their autograph (none in this example). Scarce illustrated work by Ruby Lindsay.
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# 46932
BARNETT, P. Neville
Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir
Sydney : very privately printed, ‘saxteenth Octember, thirty-four’. Quarto, printed wrappers, stringbound, pp. [32], illustrations of bookplates by Phyllis Shillito, Freda Robertshaw, George Hay and many others. limited to 150 copies signed by the author. A humorous and amusing printed souvenir for Barnett’s larger work on Woodcut Book Plates.
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# 46930
PHILLIPS, Emma
Send me a lullaby
Melbourne : Photo Australia x Perimeter Editions (Melbourne), 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 48, photographically illustrated. Send me a lullaby is a love letter to a city undergoing immense change, created during a period of both urban transformation and global upheaval. Emma Phillips was commissioned by Photo Australia to make a photographic portrait of Melbourne …
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# 46928
TRAILL, Jessie
Stars in the river : the prints of Jessie Traill
edited by Roger Butler ; with essays by Tim Bonyhady, Rebecca Edwards, Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax and Macushla Robinson. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Gallery of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. Includes a reproduction of Traill’s bookplate. This eagerly awaited publication celebrates the artistic career of one of Australia’s most important printmakers of the …
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# 46548
THE WOMEN'S GALLERY
[MELBOURNE] The Women’s Gallery 1st Anniversary … Saturday 22nd July 1989 …
Fitzroy, Vic. : The Women’s Gallery, 375 Brunswick Street, 1989. A4 sheet, printed recto only; very good condition. Flyer inviting ‘members & friends … to join us at the Gallery for supper / concert / dance / Moira Macdonald & Mojo Blues Band / with guest speaker Janine Burke’. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia …
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# 46525
WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)
Women’s Art Register. Catalogue of slides.
Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [May, 1983]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [2], 6, [8 index of Information Folders]; roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46526
WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)
Women’s Art Register Extension Project. Catalogue of slides.
Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [1983?]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [7]; roneo-printed; light creasing, Virginia’ Fraser’s annotations in pencil. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46523
PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY (Melbourne)
You are invited to the opening of [The] An Australian Group Show. Brian Windridge, Jillian Gibb, Virginia Fraser, Fiona Hall. Photographers Gallery, 344 Punt Rd, South Yarra on Thursday July 3 [1986], 6.00 pm.
South Yarra, Vic. : Photographers’ Gallery, [1986]. Invitation, 100 x 210 mm, black on white card, printed recto only; with Virginia Fraser’s revision of the first word of the title in felt-tip pen; a couple of light marks. The Photographers’ Gallery (and Workshop) was founded in 1973 by Paul Cox, Ingeborg Tyssen, John F. Williams …