New Acquisitions

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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, …

  • # 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.  

  • # 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.  

  • # 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, …

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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.