New Acquisitions
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# 46268
ROBINSON, Roland E.
Language of the sand
Sydney : Lyre-Bird Writers, 1949. Octavo, card wrappers, dustjacket (sunned, a couple of creases and tears), pp. 17. Poetry inspired by the Australian natural environment, including references to Aboriginal culture.
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# 46253
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 …
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# 46249
DUNN, Michael
Nerli. An Italian painter in the South Pacific
Auckland University Press, 2005. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 154, illustrated. A fine copy.
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# 46248
PULLIN, Ruth
Eugene von Guerard. Nature revealed (scarce hardcover edition)
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2011. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 302, extensively illustrated, lightly handled, small stain to rear endpapers. The very scarce hardcover edition.
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# 46247
GREENHALGH, Paul (editor)
Art nouveau 1890 – 1914 (hardcover)
London : V & A Publications, 2000. Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket,, pp. 464, illustrated. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, signed by her on the title page.
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# 46245
BURKE, Janine
Australian women artists 1840 – 1940
Melbourne : Greenhouse, 1980. First edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. 188, illustrated. Includes biographical details on colonial, impressionist and modernist painters. Includes works by Grace Crowley, Clarice Beckett, Ethel Spowers, Margaret Preston, Eveline Syme, A.M.E. Bale, Jean Bellette, Dorrit Black, Lina Bryans, Sybil Craig, Ethel Carrick Fox, Bessie Gibson, Joy Hester, …
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# 46244
BUTLER, Roger
The prints of Margaret Preston. A catalogue raisonne (hardcover)
Canberra : Australian National Gallery, 1987. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 337 fully illustrated, a fine copy. The first edition, less common hardback issue.
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# 46243
PRESTON, Margaret; NORTH, Ian
The Art of Margaret Preston (hardcover)
Adelaide : Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1980. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 87, essays and illustrations.
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# 46242
HAMMOND, Victoria
A century of Australian women artists, 1840s-1940s
Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 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 Fox, Bessie Gibson, …
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# 46241
QUINLAN, Karen
In a picture land over the sea : Agnes Goodsir 1864-1939
Bendigo, Vic. : Bendigo Art Gallery, 1998. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 76, illustrated, a fine copy. Scarce. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies.
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# 46240
JAMES, Rodney (curator)
Janet Cumbrae Stewart : the perfect touch
Melbourne : Mornington Peninsula Gallery, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, 28pp. Exhibition catalogue which features full colour images, and essays by Catherine Salmon and Dr. Juliette Peers. Scarce.
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# 46238
[BELLETTE, JEAN].
Jean Bellette: retrospective
Sydney : National Trust of Australia, 2004. Small octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 80, illustrated in colour throughout, introduction by Christine France, essays by Barbara Hall and Amanda Beresford. Exhibition catalogue for the travelling retrospective exhibition of the works of Jean Bellette. Fine condition.
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# 46237
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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# 46235
ARKLEY, Howard et al
Downtown : Ruscha, Rooney, Arkley.
Melbourne : Museum of Modern Art Heide, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Suburbia through the eyes of Ed Ruscha, Robert Rooney and Howard Arkley. From the library of renowned art historian Ann Galbally, loosely enclosed is her three page speech made at the opening of the …
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# 46233
REILLY, Dianne & Jennifer CAREW
Sun Pictures of Victoria : The Fauchery-Daintree Collection 1858
Melbourne : Library Council of Victoria, 1983. First edition. Quarto (295 x 260 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed), pp 143, with 53 full-page photographic plates, introductory essay, notes and references; a couple of small spots of foxing, a very good copy. The French photographer and writer Antoine …
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# 46232
ASTBURY, Leigh
Sunlight and shadow. Australian impressionist painters 1880 – 1900
Sydney : Bay Books, 1989. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, light handling marks, pp. 232, illustrated. A detailed study of the Australian impressionist movement in the lead up to Federation.