# 46112

URE SMITH, Sydney

[THEATRE] Present day art in Australia. New and revised edition of numbers 1 and 2. (Signed by Leo McKern, Keith Michell and many other actors from the touring Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company)

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Sydney : Ure Smith, 1949. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), decorated papered boards, cloth spine; pp. 64, illustrated in colour and black and white. Includes portraits of the artists; a very good copy; the front free-endpaper has the original signatures of over 40 actors from the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre’s Australian tour in 1953, including Australian stars Leo McKern and Keith Michell, as well as English actors Barbara Jefford, Charmian Eyre, Raymond Westwell, James Grout and Zena Walker.

Artists whose work is reproduced in Present day art in Australia include Rupert Bunny, Donald Friend, James Gleeson, Elioth Gruner, Hans Heysen, Elaine Haxton, Nora Heysen, Adrian Feint, Daphne Mayo, Kenneth Macqueen, Arthur Murch, Justin O’Brien, Desiderius Orban, Margaret Preston, Eric Wilson, Constance Stokes, Eric Thake, William Dobell, George Lawrence, Noel Counihan, and Elaine Haxton.