Australian Women Artists
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# 50869
COTTE, Sabine
Mirka Mora : a life making art
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2019. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 268, illustrated. New copy. Mirka Mora features a rich insight into the intellectual life and art practice of one of Australia’s most versatile, creative and prolific modern artists. A Melbourne cultural icon, Mirka, along with her ex-husband Georges, was instrumental in helping to …
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# 50853
HUTCHINGS, P. Ae. and LEWIS, Julie
Kathleen O’Connor : artist in exile
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987. Octavo, stiff wrappers, illustrated dustjacket, pp. 326, illustrated, a very good copy of this monograph on the West Australian modernist painter.
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# 50849
PHIPPS, Jennifer
Creators & inventors : Australian women’s art in the National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1993. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Includes works by Ellis Rowan, Louisa Anne Meredith, Bessie Gibson, Violet Teague, Thea Proctor, Clarice Beckett, Grace Cossington-Smith, Jessie Traill, Frances Derham, Janet Cumbrae Stewart, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Klytie Pate, Joy Hester, Grace Crowley, Daphne Mayo, Jean Bellette, Hermia …
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# 50843
BEIER, Ulli; COX, Paul; MORA, Mirka
Mirka (signed presentation copy)
Text by Ulli Beier, photographs by Paul Cox. Melbourne : Macmillan, 1980. First edition. Oblong quarto, buckram boards with title in blind, in pictorial dust jacket, pp 84; slight wave to text block, else a fine copy. Signed and inscribed by the author Ulli Beier to art historian and publisher Jenny Zimmer on the endpaper …
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# 50842
ZDANOWICZ, Irena
Beauty in truth : the Botanical Art of Margaret Stones
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 96, illustrated.
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# 50815
GABORI, Sally
Sally Gabori : a survey exhibition of paintings 2005-2012
Canberra : ANU Drill Hall Gallery, 2013. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated. Text by John McPhee, Beverly Knight, Terence Maloon.
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# 50786
DEL'MACE, Jill [DEL-MACE, Gill], 1947 - 2024
Magic Realism : A Collection of Works by Jill Del’Mace
[Melbourne] : Export Australia, 1989. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, colour plates, biography, gallery label for Delshan Gallery, of which Del-Mace was a co-owner. Scarce catalogue of the late Jill Del’Mace’s haunting realist images with full page colour plates and accompanying prose. Later in her career, the artist returned to the original spelling of her name Gill …
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# 50770
McDONALD, Patricia R.
Barbara Tribe : sculptor
Patricia R. McDonald ; with an introduction by Deborah Edwards and a personal memoir by Anthony Stones. Sydney : Craftsman House in association with G+B Arts International, 2000. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, light marks to endpapers, illustrated. Apart from life modelling, Barbara Tribe later learned wood and stone carving. Since the 1960s, she …
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# 50769
OLSEN, Penny
Collecting ladies. Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated cards, light handling marks, corners a little bumped, pp. 238, illustrated. Scarce. “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 …
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# 50767
RYAN, Judith et al
Across the desert : Aboriginal batik from Central Australia
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. A fine copy.
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# 50763
NORTON, Leonie
Women of flowers : botanical art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, slightly bumped, pp. 126, illustrated, crease to the lower board. A tribute to the female colonial artists who documented Australia’s indigenous wildflowers and plants through their art.
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# 50751
AUDETTE, Yvonne
Yvonne Audette. Paintings and drawings 1949 – 2014
Essays by Christopher Heathcote, Bruce James, Gerard Vaughan and Kristy Grant. With a preface by Chris Wallace-Crabbe. Melbourne : Macmillan, 2014 (revised edition). Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 256, extensively illustrated. A new, pristine copy in publisher’s shrink-wrap. First published in 2003 and reissued in a revised and expanded edition in 2014 (as here), this …
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# 50744
[CARRICK FOX]. DE VRIES, Susanna
Ethel Carrick Fox: travels and triumphs of a post-impressionist (limited edition)
Brisbane : Pandanus Press, 1997. Quarto, cloth covered boards, illustrated dust jacket, illustrated throughout with colour and black & white plates, scholarly text on the artist by Susanna de Vries, a very good copy. The limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author, in lettered slipcase.
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# 50741
[KNGWARREYE]. ISAACS, Jennifer et al.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye : paintings
With contributions by Jennifer Isaacs, Terry Smith, Judith Ryan, Donald Holt & Janet Holt. Sydney : Craftsman House, 1998. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 204, illustrated in colour throughout, a fine copy of this scholarly publication, scarce. The first book dedicated to the art of Emily Kame Kngwarre, released on1st February, 1998. Emily …
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# 50722
[CUMBRAE STEWART]
The pastels of Cumbrae Stewart (expanded hardcover edition)
With an appreciation by John Shirlow. Melbourne : Alexander McCubbin, n.d. [1921?]. Quarto (288 mm tall), quarter-cloth over papered boards, corners a little bumped, text and 23 leaves of plates in colour and black and white, advertisements at rear. The expanded hard cover edition (a wrappered edition was also published with 16 plates). Limited to …
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# 50721
McGREGOR, Ken and TRIMBLE, Judith
Tjanpi
Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2011. Series: Macmillan mini-art series number 19. Small square octavo, pictorial boards in dust jacket, 144 pp extensively illustrated. An as new copy on the Tjanpi Desert Weavers.