Australian Women Artists

  • 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.

    # 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 …

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  • Violet Teague (signed copy)

    # 46685

    CLARK, Jane and DRUCE, Felicity

    Violet Teague (signed copy)

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 128, published in conjunction with the Violet Teague retrospective exhibition (1999), foreword by Professor Jaynie Anderson, contains 52 colour and black & white plates of Teague’s works, introduction by Jane Clark, essays by Felicity Druce, Richard Neville, Roger Butler, Anita Callaway, Kay Vernon, Jeanette Hoorn, …

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  • In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts

    # 46919

    GRANT, Kirsty

    In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts

    Melbourne : NGV, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 72, illustrated. A very good copy. Includes artworks by Violet Teague, Margaret Preston, Ethel Powers, Helen Ogilvie, Geraldine Rede, Lionel Lindsay, Thea Proctor, Sybil Craig, Noel Counihan, Eric Thake, Bea Maddock, Dorrit Black and others.

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  • Rosalie Gascoigne / Colin McCahon : sense of place

    # 46622

    McCAHON, Colin; GASCOIGNE, Rosalie

    Rosalie Gascoigne / Colin McCahon : sense of place

    Sydney : Ivan Dougherty Gallery and Melbourne : The Ian Potter Gallery, 1990. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 64, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held “on the occasion of the Sesquicentenary of New Zealand, 1990”. Scarce.

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  • Odd roads to be walking. 156 women who shaped Australian Art

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    FINUCANE, Paul and STUART, Catherine

    Odd roads to be walking. 156 women who shaped Australian Art

    Sydney : Sheila Foundation, 2019 (2023 reprint). Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 304, illustrated. New copy. ”It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting’ …..so wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journeys of many artists can be described as ‘odd roads’, few were as original …

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  • Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art. Contained within Art in Australia, third series, number seventy-two.

    # 46712

    PRESTON, Margaret

    Margaret Preston’s Lectures on art. Contained within Art in Australia, third series, number seventy-two.

    Sydney : John Fairfax and Sons, August 1938. Quarto, original green wrappers, 80 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white, previous owner’s name to upper wrapper, a fine copy. Among the various articles and illustrations is a revised piece by Preston based on a series of lectures she gave at the Art Gallery of …

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  • Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)

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    CANNING, Criss

    Criss Canning : Instagram moments (from the library of Criss Canning)

    Unpublished : the artist, 2020. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, approximately 160 pages, illustrated with photographs taken from the artist’s Instagram account, documenting her painting, home, garden and travels. Printed in an edition of 10 copies for family. A self-published book of reminiscences and inspiration created by Criss Canning during the COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia in …

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  • Ethel Carrick (Mrs. E. Phillips Fox)

    # 46877

    [CARRICK, Ethel]. ZUBANS, Ruth

    Ethel Carrick (Mrs. E. Phillips Fox)

    A retrospective exhibition. Geelong, Victoria : Geelong Art Gallery, 1979. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with 57 plates in black & white, catalogue for the travelling retrospective exhibition of the works of Ethel Carrick [Carrick Fox].  

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  • Patricia Piccinini : once upon a time

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    MESSENGER, Jane

    Patricia Piccinini : once upon a time

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2011. Folio, illustrated boards in plastic carry case (light handling wear), pp. 148, illustrated. Surveys the career of one of Australia’s pre-eminent contemporary artists. This is the first major book on Piccinini and is designed to reflect the scale and detail of her varied practice. Published on the occasion …

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  • Grace Crowley : being modern

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    TAYLOR, Elena

    Grace Crowley : being modern

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2006. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated, previous owner’s name to half-title, a fine copy.   .

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  • Peg's fairy book

    # 46870

    MALTBY, Peg (author and illustrator)

    Peg’s fairy book

    Written & illustrated by Peg Maltby. Melbourne : Murfett Pty. Ltd., [1944]. First edition. Folio, decorated papered boards, cloth spine, edges rubbed, a little silverfished, pp. [48], colour plates, vignette illustrations, a good copy. Muir 4742

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  • Criss Canning

    # 46868

    CANNING, Criss

    Criss Canning

    October 19th – October 29th 1989. Melbourne Art Exchange. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers, unpaginated, 28 colour plates a fine copy.

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  • Unsettled : Virginia Fraser, Dirk de Bruyn, Lorraine Austin. Kraznapolsky, 12/14 Grey Street, St. Kilda. Opening 24 May [2002] 6pm.

    # 46554

    [FRASER, Virginia]

    Unsettled : Virginia Fraser, Dirk de Bruyn, Lorraine Austin. Kraznapolsky, 12/14 Grey Street, St. Kilda. Opening 24 May [2002] 6pm.

    St. Kilda, Vic. : Kraznapolsky Gallery, [2002]. Exhibition flyer. 110 x 300 mm, printed recto only; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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  • Rosemary Laing

    # 46827

    LAING, Rosemary; ANNEAR, Judy; LYNN, Victoria

    Rosemary Laing

    Healesville : Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2017. Oblong folio, illustrated boards, pp. 92, illustrated. Essays by Victoria Lynn and Judy Annear. Catalogue of an exhibition held at TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 2 December 2017 – 11 February 2018. ‘Rosemary Laing is a renowned Australian artist who has worked with photography since the late 1980s. …

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  • Claude Flight and his followers : the colour linocut movement between the wars

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    COPPEL, Stephen

    Claude Flight and his followers : the colour linocut movement between the wars

    Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1992. Folio, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Includes artists such as Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Lill Tschudi, Dorrit Black, Eileen Mayo, etc. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page.

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  • Aida Tomescu : Eden

    # 46791

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu : Eden

    Melbourne : Karen Woodbury Gallery and Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2010. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [28], illustrated..

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