Australian Art April 2025

  • Historic Sydney as seen by its early artists

    # 46706

    EVANS, Susanna

    Historic Sydney as seen by its early artists

    Sydney : Doubleday, 1983. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, spine a little faded,  pp. 160, illustrated in colour and black and white. The history of Australia’s first city told through its colonial artists.

  • Quarterly July 1969. Tom Roberts Special Number

    # 46675

    THOMAS, Daniel

    Quarterly July 1969. Tom Roberts Special Number

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1969. Vol. 10, No. 4, July 1969. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 466 – 488, illustrated in black and white. Quarterly magazine from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this issue dedicated to the work of Tom Roberts.

  • Outback

    # 46703

    NOLAN, Cynthia (1908-1976); NOLAN, Sidney (1917-1992) (illustrator)

    Outback

    London : Methuen, 1962. Octavo, publisher’s red cloth boards in Sidney Nolan dust jacket (worn at head of spine), pp 222, with illustrations by Sidney Nolan and numerous photographic plates; a free handling marks, a good copy. Memoir of the Nolans’ journey through outback New South Wales, Central Australia, South Australia and Western Australia.

  • Nolan : the estate of Sir Sidney Nolan

    # 46702

    NOLAN, Sidney (1917 - 1992)

    Nolan : the estate of Sir Sidney Nolan

    Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2001. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 112, illustrations throughout. Auction catalogue for the estate of Sir Sidney Nolan on the date of September 16, 2001.

  • The Great Aussie Fashion. Australian fashion designers 1984 - 1985

    # 46699

    MACKAY, Elina

    The Great Aussie Fashion. Australian fashion designers 1984 – 1985

    Sydney : Kevin Weldon, 1984. Folio, illustrated wrappers (light edge wear, lightly creased), pp. 288, some fold-out illustrations, extensively illustrated with fashion photographs, else a very good copy. A super hot look at contemporary designers creating garments for a modern, stylish Australia still riding the wave of our American Cup win. Jenny Lee, Prue Acton, …

  • A letter from Sydney (signed and inscribed copy)

    # 46697

    LINDSAY, Ray; ARNOLD, John

    A letter from Sydney (signed and inscribed copy)

    Being a long epistle from Ray Lindsay to his brother Jack relating mainly to their lives in Sydney in the nineteen-twenties. Edited by John Arnold. Melbourne: The Jester Press Pty Ltd, 1983. Large octavo, printed wrappers 56pp., photographic frontispiece. Limited to 1100 copies. With a signed presentation inscription from the editor and the publisher.

  • Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Painter and naturalist : a forgotten treasure

    # 46695

    BAGLIONE, Gabrielle et al.

    Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Painter and naturalist : a forgotten treasure

    [Paris] : MKF Editions, [2016]. Quarto, pictorial laminated boards, pp. 392, illustrated. New copy. Text by Gabrielle Baglione, Cédric Crémière ; translated from French into English by Jean Fornasiero & John West-Sooby. On 19 October 1800, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur set sail on a voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands led by Nicolas Baudin. He soon demonstrated …

  • No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    # 46687

    CULLEN, Jenny

    No Other Man No Other Store : The Extraordinary Life of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones: Painter, Patron and Patriot 1878-1958

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2013. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 239, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in storage since publication, still sealed in publisher’s plastic. Sir Charles Lloyd Jones always wanted to be an artist and, in his youth, studied painting for six and a half years, first at the Julian Ashton …

  • Arnold Shore : pioneer modernist

    # 46684

    HAYSOM, Rob

    Arnold Shore : pioneer modernist

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2009. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. As new. Nearly every history of Australian modern art, and monographs dedicated to artists of the period, will refer to the writings of Arnold Shore. Deakin University academic, Rob Haysom, explores the background of the artist, the difficulties of his time, and the development …

  • Thomas Bock. Convict engraver, society portraitist

    # 46681

    [BOCK]. BUTLER, Roger, et al.

    Thomas Bock. Convict engraver, society portraitist

    Tasmania, Canberra : Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery and Australian National Gallery, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 108, preface by Kevin Munn, introduction by Diane Dunbar, chronology of Bock’s life and work, essay on Bock by Roger Butler, essay by Andrew Sayers, essay on Thomas Bock’s portraits of the Tasmanian Aborigines by N. J. …

  • 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 …

  • Streeton

    # 46961

    TUNNICLIFFE, Wayne

    Streeton

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales in conjunction with Thames & Hudson, 2020. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 384, illustrated. Light handling marks, a very good copy. A superb monograph on the leading Australian impressionist. With his remarkable evocations of light and the landscape, Australian artist Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) remains one of the most …

  • The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

    # 46662

    JOHNSON, Heather

    The Sydney art patronage system 1890-1940

    Grass Point [N.S.W.] : Bungoona Technologies, 1997. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 279, black and white illustrations. Scarce. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.

  • Sir John Longstaff 1862 - 1941

    # 46663

    TIMMS, Peter

    Sir John Longstaff 1862 – 1941

    an exhibition prepared by Shepparton Art Gallery for Arts Victoria 75. Shepparton : Shepparton Art Gallery, 1975. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [24], illustrated. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the half-title.

  • Arthur Streeton : the passionate gardener

    # 46661

    SMITH, Geoffrey

    Arthur Streeton : the passionate gardener

    Mornington : Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2002. Quarto, illustrated cards (edges rubbed), pp. 24, illustrated. Scarce.

  • Melbourne journal of technical studies in art. Volume 1 : Frames

    # 46636

    WHITE, Lee (editor)

    Melbourne journal of technical studies in art. Volume 1 : Frames

    [Melbourne, Vic.] : University of Melbourne, Conservation Service, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 158, illustrated. A valuable guide to Australian historical frames. Includes chapters on frame makers Isaac Whitehead and John Thallon, and a directory of frame makers in Sydney and Tasmania.