AUSTRALIAN ART July 2026
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# 50797
KLEPAC, Lou
Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century
Selected and edited by Lou Klepac. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2000. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light edge wear, 241pp. illustrated. Includes chapters on important artists such as John Brack, Margaret Preston, Ian Fairweather, Brett Whiteley, Jeffrey Smart, Albert Tucker and Sidney Nolan amongst others. A fine copy.
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# 50787
STOCKY, Catherine
The Kenneth Jack view
Melbourne : Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked), 56 pp, illustrated in colour showing 109 works.
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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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# 50781
WERKSEY, Gary
Picturing a nation. The art and life of A. H. Fullwood (signed copy)
Sydney : Newsouth Publishing, 2021. Octavo, illustrated boards in dustjacket, pp. x; 341, illustrated, presentation inscription signed by the author.
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# 50780
JONES, John
Robert Dowling. Tasmanian son of Empire
Melbourne : NGV, 2010. Octavo, illustrated boards, corners slightly bumped, pp. 192, illustrated. Dowling holds a special place in the history of Australian art, as the first artist to be be trained in Australia and was renowned for his paintings of pastoralists, indigenous people and biblical themes. This is the first major exhibition of his …
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# 50779
GILMOUR, Joanna
Elegance in Exile : Portrait Drawings from Colonial Australia
Canberra : National Portrait Gallery, 2012. Octavo, decorated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, maps to endpapers, pp. 180, illustrated, folding plates. Includes works by Thomas Watling, Elizabeth Prinsep, Thomas Wainwright, Thomas Bock, Richard Read, Charles Rodius et al.
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# 50778
OLSEN, Penny
Feather and Brush : three centuries of Australian bird art
Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2001. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. 228, a very good copy. This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. There …
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# 50777
EAGLE, Mary and MINCHIN, Jan
The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences.
Melbourne: Deutscher Fine Art and Sydney : Resolution Press, 1981. Quarto, blindstamped cloth in dustjacket (handling creases), 272 pages fully illustrated. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, featuring artists Eric Thake, Alan Sumner, Yvonne Atkinson, Geoff Jones, Jack Courier, Justin Gill, Sali Herman, Ian Armstrong, Fred Williams, Harry Rosengrave, Len French, Constance Stokes, Russell Drysdale. This …
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# 50776
PEARCE, Barry.
Michael Johnson
Foreword Edmund Capon. Sydney: The Beagle Press, 2004. Quarto, boards in illustrated dust jacket, light edge wear, 204pp. illustrated. A major monograph on the abstractionist.
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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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# 50768
An̲anguku Arts and Culture Aboriginal Corporation (South Australia)
Tjukurpa Pulkatjara : the power of the law
Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2010. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 112, illustrated. Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law is an insight into 48 benchmark works by senior artists from the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara lands, featuring works from major private and public collections.
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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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# 50766
GRAY, Anna
George W. Lambert retrospective. Heroes & icons
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (crease to lower wrapper), pp. 212, illustrated.
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# 50765
GRAY, Anna
McCubbin. Last impressions 1907 – 1917
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2009. Quarto, illustrated card boards, pp. 168, illustrated.
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# 50764
MAGUIRE, Tim
Tim Maguire
Sydney : Piper Press, 2007. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 252, illustrated throughout.