Modern Australian women artists : paintings, prints and potters. The Andrée Harkness Collection (deluxe limited edition)

Melbourne : Almaled Pty. Ltd., 2020. Quarto, 280 x 245 mm, gilt-lettered cloth with insert illustration by Dora Meeson, pp. [x]; 244, illustrated, housed in a gilt-lettered slipcase with ribbon drawer. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, individually numbered, with an additional portrait of Andrée Harkness not found in the trade edition.

The rare deluxe limited edition, produced to the highest quality, published for private distribution within the family and not publically offered for sale. 

‘The most comprehensive book on modern Australian women artists published, this book represents some of Australia’s most important women artists between 1870s-1960s, a dynamic period in Australian art. Artists include Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, Ethel Carrick Fox, Clarice Beckett and Hilda Rix Nicholas. With an impressive selection of prints from influential printmakers including Thea Proctor, Dorrit Black and Ethel Spowers as well as significant art potters Klytie Pate, Theodora Cowan, Una Deerbon and Grace Seccombe.

Featuring 145 works from 67 artists with essays from three prominent art writers focusing on the lives of the artists — their trials, tribulations and triumphs. The support, encouragement and incentive they gave each other during their lifetimes, vital to overcoming the obstacles as women artists. The works discussed in detail and stunningly reproduced on the page.‘ – the publisher.

Also includes works by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Vida Lahey, A. M. E. Bale, Jean Bellette, Stella Bowen, Emma Minnie Boyd, Ethel Carrick Fox, Janet Cumbrae-Stewart, Bessie Gibson, Joy Hester, Jessie Mackintosh, Agnes Goodsir, Marguerite Mahood, Esther Paterson, Helen Ogilvie, Ellis Rowan, Constance Stokes, Eileen Mayo, Ethleen Palmer, Freda Robertshaw, Violet Teague, Lesbia Thorpe, Jessie Traill etc.