Australian Women Artists

  • 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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  • Dorrit Black : unseen forces

    # 34638

    LOCK, Tracey

    Dorrit Black : unseen forces

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2017. Second edition. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 224, illustrated. Corners bumped and rubbed, sold as a damaged, working reference copy. “Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces was written by Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings & Sculpture at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Dorrit Black is the last major Australian …

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  • The art of Dorrit Black

    # 34637

    NORTH, Ian

    The art of Dorrit Black

    Melbourne: Macmillan and the Art Gallery of South Australia, 1979. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, pp 152; a fine copy. The standard monograph on the artist, illustrated throughout with a detailed catalogue.

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  • The drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs. Will Dyson)

    # 34621

    [RUBY LINDSAY, 1887-1919]

    The drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs. Will Dyson)

    London : Cecil Palmer, 1920. Quarto, buckram over papered boards (light scuff marks), gilt title, 51 pp, illustrated in black and white and colour. Bookplate to front pastedown of Molly Coen, sister of Margaret Coen (who designed the bookplate) and friend of the Lindsay family. A very good copy. This work, available only to subscribers, …

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  • The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

    # 34619

    MUIR, Marcie and HOLDEN, Robert

    The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1985. First edition.  Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, 171 pp. extensively illustrated. The definitive reference on Outhwaite, one of Australia’s and Britain’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators. A very good copy of the first edition.

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  • Patricia Piccinini: Curious affection (deluxe edition)

    # 34614

    McKAY, Peter et al

    Patricia Piccinini: Curious affection (deluxe edition)

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 2018. Quarto, illustrated boards, in a slipcase with ribbon drawer, pp. 202, illustrated. One of a small number of specially bound copies in slipcase. Patricia Piccinini’s imaginative and startlingly life-like artworks surprise and enchant with their fantastic rendering of the near future — a world in which DNA editing is …

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  • Polixeni Papapetrou

    # 34613

    KING, Natalie (series editor)

    Polixeni Papapetrou

    Melbourne : Thames & Hudson, 2019. Octavo, illustrated boards, pp. 96, illustrated in colour.

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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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  • Rosemary Laing

    # 34610

    SOLOMON-GODEAU, Abigail

    Rosemary Laing

    Sydney : Piper Press, 2012. Oblong folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 176, extensively illustrated. New copy, mint condition, sealed in shrinkwrap. ‘Rosemary Laing presents a spectacular vision of Australia as both haunted by history and alive to the present. Her images appear suspended between fantasy and reality, and render the impossible possible.’ – the publisher

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  • Sketches in early Tasmania and Victoria by Emily Bowring (deluxe edition)

    # 34539

    BOWRING, Emily

    Sketches in early Tasmania and Victoria by Emily Bowring (deluxe edition)

    Edited by K. R. von Stieglitz, O.B.E. Victorian captions by P. L. Brown. Hobart : Fuller’s Bookshop, 1965. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (silver fishing, mainly to lower wrapper), pp. [40], illustrated. Presentation copy from von Stieglitz to historian Marnie Bassett with signed inscription, with related correspondence loosely enclosed. ‘The author’s known and …

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  • Utopia : Ancient cultures, new forms

    # 34605

    [KNGWARREYE, Emily Kame]

    Utopia : Ancient cultures, new forms

    The Holmes à Court Collection in association with the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Perth, W.A. : Heytesbury Pty Ltd and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1999. Essays by Wally Caruana &​ Christopher Hodges. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Artworks by Emily Kame Kngwarreye. “This publication supports the exhibition … first shown at Galeri …

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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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  • Margo Lewers : retrospective

    # 34481

    BELL, Pamela

    Margo Lewers : retrospective

    Sydney : National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.), 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the SH Ervin Gallery.

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  • Polly Borland : Australians.

    # 34485

    BORLAND, Polly

    Polly Borland : Australians.

    London : National Portrait Gallery, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 120, illustrated. Essay by Peter Conrad, biographies and interviews by Virginia Ginnane. Foreword by Nick Cave. Includes portraits of Barry Humphries, Ron Mueck, Marc Newson, Harry Kewell, Clive James, Elisabeth Murdoch, Germaine Greer, Natalie Imbruglia, Richie Benaud, Cate Blanchett, Kylie Minogue and many others.

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  • Industry and nature : the etchings of Jessie Traill

    # 34511

    WILLIAMSON, Clare

    Industry and nature : the etchings of Jessie Traill

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 1989. Quarto, self-wrappers, light handling marks, pp. 12, illustrated.

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