Australian Women Artists

  • Lina Bryans : A Retrospective Exhibition

    # 50660

    MINCHIN, Jan

    Lina Bryans : A Retrospective Exhibition

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1982. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp 24. With introduction by Jennifer Phipps and selected works illustrated in colour and black and white.  

  • Constance Stokes 1906 - 1991

    # 50652

    PEERS, Juliette

    Constance Stokes 1906 – 1991

    Melbourne : Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, 2021. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, folded sheet, a little creased, pp. [8], illustrated.

  • Linocuts of the machine age : Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School (limited edition)

    # 50648

    COPPEL, Stephen

    Linocuts of the machine age : Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School (limited edition)

    Aldershot, Hants, Eng. : Scolar Press, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 1995. First edition. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dust jacket, pp. 205, extensively illustrated; a fine copy. The limited edition of 30 copies, which was issued with the oversized print by Lill Tschudi Ski-joring (Coppel LT 54), not included with this copy. …

  • Completing the picture : women artists and the Heidelberg era

    # 50636

    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. Excellent reference on a lesser researched school of painters, including A.M.E. Bale, Emma Minnie Boyd, Dora Meeson, Clara Southern, Violet Teague and May Vale; Iso Rae; Jane Price and others.

  • The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

    # 50629

    MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert

    The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition.  Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket (light sunning to spine), 171 pp. extensively illustrated. The definitive reference on Outhwaite, one of Australia’s and Britain’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators. A very good copy of the first edition.

  • Patricia Piccinini & Joy Hester : through love

    # 50620

    LYNN, Victoria (curator); PICCININI, Patricia; HESTER, Joy

    Patricia Piccinini & Joy Hester : through love

    Melbourne : TarraWarra Museum of Art, November 2018. Quarto, pictorial laminated boards, illustrated endpapers, pp. 126, illustrated. New copy. Catalogue for an Exhibition held at TarraWarra Museum of Art from 24 November 2018 – 11 March 2019. ‘Love and intimacy are the focus of this major exhibition that pairs the work of globally renowned artist Patricia …

  • Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir (presentation copy)

    # 48737

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir (presentation copy)

    Sydney : very privately printed, ‘saxteenth Octember, thirty-four’. Quarto, printed wrappers (a little marked), 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. This copy with …

  • Yvonne Audette. Paintings and drawings 1949 - 2014

    # 50576

    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 …

  • The Delmore Collection presents Emily Kngwarreye

    # 50567

    HART, Deborah

    The Delmore Collection presents Emily Kngwarreye

    [Utopia, N.T.] : Delmore Gallery, circa 1995. Gallery promotional flyer, folded card, five colour illustrations, short essay. Very scarce and early publication on Kngwarreye, preceding all the monographs on her, from Delmore Gallery, located on Delmore Downs Station in the remote Utopia community of the Northern Territory (the brochure advises ‘Airstrip available’). Scarce and ephemeral

  • Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Alhalkere. Paintings from Utopia

    # 50562

    [KNGWARREYE]. NEALE, Margo.

    Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Alhalkere. Paintings from Utopia

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 1998. Quarto, illustrated cards in paper dustwrapper, 154pp. illustrated throughout. An important monograph, a very good copy, scarce.

  • Earth’s creation : the paintings of Emily Kame Kngwarreye.

    # 50501

    KNGWARREYE, Emily Kame

    Earth’s creation : the paintings of Emily Kame Kngwarreye.

    Melbourne : Malakoff Fine Art Press (Laurine Diggins Fine Art), 1998. Quarto (295 x 205 mm), pictorial wrappers, pp. 16, [1]; colour illustrations (including folding plates); an excellent copy. Catalogue produced for a Laurine Diggins Fine Art exhibition, with numerous colour illustrations, an essay Taking Charge: The Art of Emily Kame Kngwarreye by Daniel Thomas, …

  • Emily Kame Kngwarreye : paintings

    # 50499

    [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. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 204, illustrated in colour throughout, a fine copy of this scholarly publication, scarce. Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c. 1910-1996) was a senior member of the Anmatyerre community resident at Utopia, a former …

  • Anne Dangar

    # 50488

    EDWARDS, Rebecca

    Anne Dangar

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2024. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 264, illustrated. Scarce.

  • A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

    # 50482

    HAMMOND, Victoria

    A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, spine slightly sunned, pp. 96, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue of works by female Australian artists between 1840 and 1940. Features an essay by Victoria Hammond. Includes works by May Gibbs, Clarice Beckett, Violet Teague, Grace Crowley, Margaret Preston, Christian Waller, Ruby Lind, Olive Cotton, Ethel Carrick …

  • Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945 (hardcover)

    # 50480

    RADFORD, Ron and HYLTON, Jane

    Modern Australian women : paintings & prints 1925-1945 (hardcover)

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2000. Quarto, laminated boards, 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, Marjorie Gwynne, Mary …

  • A book about Australian women

    # 50431

    JERREMS, Carol (1949 - 1980); FRASER, Virginia (1947 - 2021)

    A book about Australian women

    Photographs by Carol Jerrems. Text edited by Virginia Fraser. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a few light creases and lightly marked), pp. 141; [3], illustrated in black and white, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary small gift inscription dated 1974, a very good copy. Design and layout of the photographic pages by Carol …