Australian Art - General

  • Pioneers of modernism : the arts and crafts movement in Australia

    # 34660

    EDQUIST, Harriet

    Pioneers of modernism : the arts and crafts movement in Australia

    Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 268, illustrated. Out of print and scarce. Between 1890 and 1930, a number of Australian architects and garden designers were heavily influenced by British and American Arts and Crafts movements. This book explores the work of four of Australia’s most radical and innovative Arts and …

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  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 34659

    HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. A fine copy.

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  • Misty moderns : Australian tonalists 1915-1950

    # 34658

    LOCK-WEIR, Tracey

    Misty moderns : Australian tonalists 1915-1950

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (illustrating a work by Clarice Beckett), pp. 144, illustrated. A fine copy. Seminal exhibition of Australian modernism featuring the works of Clarice Beckett, Max Meldrum, Percy Leason, William Frater, Roland Wakelin, Colin Colahan, Polly Hurry, and others.

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  • Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    # 34645

    ANEMAAT, Louise

    Natural Curiosity : unseen art of the First Fleet.

    Sydney : State Library of New South Wales, 2014. Quarto, illustrated limp boards, pp. 256, illustrated. A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in 18th-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds, and plants—and striking watercolor illustrations. The sudden emergence, in 2011, of a large …

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  • Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    # 34644

    HUNT, Susan and DAVISON, Graeme

    Sydney views 1788-1888 from the Beat Knoblauch collection

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 144, illustrated. Fine copy.

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  • Australian photographs : the 1980s

    # 34611

    ENNIS, Helen

    Australian photographs : the 1980s

    An exhibition from the Australian National Gallery sponsored by Kodak. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, [1988]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (small water stain to upper wrapper), pp. 112, inscription to half-title illustrated. Photographers include Julie Brown-Rrap, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Ruth Maddison, Tracey Moffatt, Jacky Redgate, Anne Zahlka and others. Cover image by Anne Ferran.

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  • Conform

    # 34599

    FOLK, Saskia

    Conform

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. [144], illustrated. Photobook of street art in Australia, including works by Banksy, Anthony Lister, and others. City walls and public places provide ready-made surfaces for works by today’s migratory population of graffiti and stencil artists. This social commentary is an innovative art form. Saskia Folk has photographed …

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  • Accounting for taste : The Lowensteins Art Management Collection.

    # 34600

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    Accounting for taste : The Lowensteins Art Management Collection.

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2013. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 288, illustrated. Author Sasha Grishin has used a musical analogy to categorise the more than 250 lavishly reproduced artworks by 135 artists of Australia’s post-war years that are included in this book. Recalling the movements of a symphony, he divides the artworks into …

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  • Printed: images in colonial Australia 1801 - 1901 [with] Printed: images by Australian artists 1885 - 1955 [and] Printed: images by Australian Artists 1942 - 2020

    # 34586

    BUTLER, Roger

    Printed: images in colonial Australia 1801 – 1901 [with] Printed: images by Australian artists 1885 – 1955 [and] Printed: images by Australian Artists 1942 – 2020

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2007 – 2021. Three volumes, quarto, pictorial boards in dustjackets, light handling wear but very fine, pp. 294; 328; 416, extensively illustrated in colour, a fine set. The complete set of Roger Butler’s comprehensive survey of printmaking in Australia. The first volume : ‘This volume follows printmaking through a …

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  • The story of the Red Cross / written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay

    # 34561

    LINDSAY, Daryl and Joan

    The story of the Red Cross / written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay

    Written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay. [Melbourne] : Australian Red Cross Society, [1941]. Quarto, decorated cloth (toned, small split lower spine), illustrated endpapers, unpaginated (approx. 80 pp.), extensively illustrated by Daryl Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Napier Waller, Frank Medworth, Douglas Annand, and others. Of particular note is the vibrant double page colour reproduction of …

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  • 1956 Melbourne

    # 34542

    WESTBROOK, Eric; HEATHCOTE, Christopher

    1956 Melbourne

    [Melbourne, Vic.] : National Gallery of Victoria, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 9, illustrated. Artists include: Edwin Adamson, John Perceval, Charles Blackman, John Brack, Joy Hester, Klytie Pate, Eric Thake, Danila Vassilieff.

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  • Angry Penguins Broadsheet : a complete set of ten issues

    # 34457

    [Max Harris; Sidney Nolan; James McGuire; Harry Roskolenko]

    Angry Penguins Broadsheet : a complete set of ten issues

    Editors: Max Harris, nos. 1-10; James McGuire, nos. 1-9; Sidney Nolan, nos. 2-9; Harry Roskolenko, no. 10. [Melbourne : Reed &​ Harris, 1946]. Ten issues, no. 1 (Jan. 1946) – no. 10 (Dec. 1946), large octavo, staple-bound, pictorial wrappers, illustrated; a very good complete set. The Angry Penguins Broadsheet was an offshoot of Max Harris’ …

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  • The story of the Red Cross / written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay

    # 34175

    LINDSAY, Daryl and Joan

    The story of the Red Cross / written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay

    Written and compiled by Joan and Daryl Lindsay. [Melbourne] : Australian Red Cross Society, [1941]. Quarto, decorated cloth (toned, small split upper spine), illustrated endpapers, unpaginated (approx. 80 pp.), extensively illustrated by Daryl Lindsay, Lionel Lindsay, Napier Waller, Frank Medworth, Douglas Annand, and others. Of particular note is the vibrant double page colour reproduction of …

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  • Printed on Stone : the lithographs of Charles Troedel.

    # 34496

    SCARDAMAGLIA, Amanda

    Printed on Stone : the lithographs of Charles Troedel.

    Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2020. Quarto, laminated boards, pp. 256, illustrated with more than 70 colour prints from the Troedel archive, plus full reproduction of all 24 plates of The Melbourne Album (lithographic views of Melbourne from 1863–1864) plus select images from the New South Wales Album (1878). New copy. Note : the title printed on …

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  • Important works from the NAB Art Collection. 23 February 2022

    # 34479

    LEONARD JOEL

    Important works from the NAB Art Collection. 23 February 2022

    Melbourne : Leonard Joel, 2022. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 180, illustrated. Includes important works by James Jackson, Louis James, David Larwill, Lesley Dumbrell, William Delafield Cook, Pro Hart, Mirka Mora, David Rankin, Jan Senbergs, David Keeling etc.

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  • Collecting ladies. Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists.

    # 34466

    OLSEN, Penny

    Collecting ladies. Ferdinand von Mueller and women botanical artists.

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated cards, very light handling marks, pp. 238, illustrated. Scare. “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 astounding 3,000-strong network …

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