Australian Women Artists

  • Aida Tomescu : Milky Way

    # 46790

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu : Milky Way

    Sydney : Liverpool Street Gallery, 2012. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 36, illustrated.

  • Aida Tomescu : Ravel

    # 46789

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu : Ravel

    Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 66, colour illustrations throughout.  Essay by Barry Pearce.

  • Aida Tomescu

    # 46788

    TOMESCU, Aida

    Aida Tomescu

    Sydney : Martin Browne Fine Art, 2004. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, colour illustrations throughout. Catalogue from exhibition running 12 October – 7 November 2004.

  • Picturesque pursuits : colonial women artists & the amateur tradition

    # 46671

    JORDAN, Caroline

    Picturesque pursuits : colonial women artists & the amateur tradition

    Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2005. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. 224, illustrated. Australian colonial women artists produced a rich ouevre of paintings, drawings and craftworks of the highest quality. In this cultural history, Caroline Jordan explores the work of Georgiana McCrae, Fanny Macleay, Elizabeth Gould, Louisa Anne Meredith and …

  • Australian prints in the Australian National Gallery

    # 46628

    BUTLER, Roger.

    Australian prints in the Australian National Gallery

    Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Margaret Preston, pp. 56, illustrated with images by Lewin, Rodius, Gillray, von Guerard, Roberts, Lindsay, Conder, Bunny, Trail, Preston, Spowers, Waller, Brack, Williams, Boyd, etc.  

  • Clarice Beckett. Politically Incorrect.

    # 46613

    BECKETT, Clarice.

    Clarice Beckett. Politically Incorrect.

    Melbourne: Ian Potter Museum of Art, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (spine sunned, as commonly found), 76pp., staple impression to a few early leaves, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies, now scarce. Text by Rosalind Hollinrake.  

  • Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    # 46568

    GIBBS, May (1877-1969)

    Bib and Bub : their adventures.

    Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1925. First edition. Quarto (240 x 210 mm), publisher’s blue cloth decorated in black (boards discoloured and very slightly warped), pictorial endpapers (front endpaper with off-setting), half-title, title, pp. 79, (1), colour panelled (i.e. comic strip format) illustrations throughout; contents with occasional toning and scattered foxing (more pronounced on preliminaries and last …

  • KooriVision Inc presents Kitch'en Koori. Art works, a kitchen, words, and an Oz kitsch dis-play. Fringe Studio, 1st Floor 184 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, 2-19 September 1992.

    # 46529

    KOORIVISION INC.; DEACON, Destiny et al.

    KooriVision Inc presents Kitch’en Koori. Art works, a kitchen, words, and an Oz kitsch dis-play. Fringe Studio, 1st Floor 184 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, 2-19 September 1992.

    [Melbourne] : KooriVision Inc., 1992. Exhibition flyer/invitation. A4 sheet folded to form [4] sides (last side is blank), illustrated; very good condition; loosely inserted is a 2-page essay on the significance of the kitsch Aboriginalia display by Kylie Belling and Johnny Harding. This exhibition was part of the 1992 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It included a …

  • The artist's lunch : at home with Australia's most celebrated artists

    # 46498

    McCORMICK, Alice; RHODES, Sarah

    The artist’s lunch : at home with Australia’s most celebrated artists

    Text : Alice McCormick; photography : Sarah Rhodes. Foreword by Margaret Olley. Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 231, illustrated. A fine copy. “Join photographer Sarah Rhodes and writer Alice McCormick as they meet up for lunch with 18 of Australias most lauded artists. From beans on toast with …

  • Sturt's Desert Pea, 1925

    # 38842

    PRESTON, Margaret (1875 - 1963)

    Sturt’s Desert Pea, 1925

    Woodcut, printed in black ink from one block, coloured by hand, measuring 184 x 248 mm (image), signed in the image lower left M. P., signed in pencil lower right Margaret Preston, titled lower left 15 Proof Sturt’s Desert Pea etc., framed in black timber. Printed in an edition of 50 copies. This striking modernist woodcut features …

  • Untitled (Pastoral view across St. Kilda and Albert Park) 1885

    # 42818

    PARSONS Elizabeth (1831-1897)

    Untitled (Pastoral view across St. Kilda and Albert Park) 1885

    Watercolour on paper, 240 x 345 mm (image), signed and dated in image l.l. ‘E. Parsons 1885’; small vertical section of discolouration along right section of the image, otherwise very good condition; housed in a hand gilded period style frame by Jarman’s Framing after a design by recognised colonial framer Isaac Whitehead. Elizabeth Parsons (1831-1897) …

  • Untitled (Lady with monkey) 1923

    # 43442

    McLACHLAN, Phyllis (1905 - 1998)

    Untitled (Lady with monkey) 1923

    Watercolour with gold highlights on card, 334 x 254 mm, signed and dated ‘Phil McLachlan 23’ lower right; in very good condition. Housed in a custom timber frame in period style by Philip Tregear, Melbourne. A stunning original watercolour from the artist’s estate. Painted when McLachlan was just 18, it exemplifies her innate sense of …

  • Tracey Moffatt : Scarred for Life. 27 October - 19 November 1994.

    # 46319

    [MOFFATT, Tracey]

    Tracey Moffatt : Scarred for Life. 27 October – 19 November 1994.

    Prahran, Vic. : Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, 1994. Exhibition room list. Foolscap folio, stapled, [2] pp., photocopied; all works in the exhibition were photo offset prints priced at $300 each (edition of 50); a good copy. Scarred for Life has become one of Moffatt’s most acclaimed series of photographic works.

  • Rainbow

    # 40913

    SIBLEY, Irena (1943-2009)

    Rainbow

    Albert Park, Vic. : Lilly Pilly Books, 1988. Second edition. Folio, bound by Richard Griffin in contrasting red and yellow embossed morocco, with inset linoleum block print to upper board, red endpapers; [42] pp of linoleum block-print plates and calligraphic text (calligraphy by Irene Sibley); all edges uncut, in fine condition. “67 copies of ‘Rainbow’ …

  • Clarice Beckett

    # 46453

    [BECKETT, Clarice]

    Clarice Beckett

    26 June – 21 July 2002. Melbourne : Martin Browne Fine Art in association with Niagara Galleries, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (foxed), pp. 34, illustrated in colour throughout, catalogue notes, biography, portrait photograph of the painter. A fine copy, with price list and invitation loosely enclosed.  

  • Clarice Beckett 1887 - 1935

    # 46452

    [BECKETT, Clarice]

    Clarice Beckett 1887 – 1935

    Melbourne : Niagara Galleries, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 48 pp. Exhibition catalogue including full page colour images, with catalogue and commentary on the works. A fine copy.