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Catalogue of Australian art exhibition catalogues

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62697 Amadio, Nadine David Boyd - The Passionate Journey Images from 1935 to 2004 May Street Galleries, Sydney NSW, 2004. Quarto; gatefold paperback; 128pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; erasure smudge to upper corner of front endpaper; mild rubbing to covers with slight wear to edges. Very good to near fine. Click here to order $25

96960 Blackman, Charles Schoolgirls and Friends Savill Galleries, Sydney, 2001. Quarto paperback; stapled booklet; unpaginated with colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear to cover corners and edges. Near fine. Click here to order $18

210281 Bond, Anthony, et al. (eds.) Landmarks Featuring works from the John Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba NSW, 2017. Octavo; paperback, stapled brochure; 23pp., with many full-colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue Click here to order $12

94668 Boyd, Arthur Family and Friends The Bundanon Trust, West Cambewarra NSW, 1997. Square octavo; paperback; 60pp. with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $20

61765 Breuer, Eva Nolan Eva Breuer, Woollahra, 2002. Square quarto paperback, 49pp., colour illustrations. Fine. Invitation and press release laid in. Click here to order $18

95138 Breuer, Eva (ed.) Coburn Painting, Works on Paper and Graphics, 1959-2003 Eva Breuer Art Dealers. Woollahra NSW, 2008. Square quarto; paperback; 60pp., with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; some light rubbing to the covers. Very good. Exhibition catalogue Click here to order $15

96803 Butler, Roger Australian Prints in the Australian National Gallery National Gallery of Australia, Parkes ACT, 1985. Quarto; stapled paperback; 56pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine. Click here to order $15

86424 [Catalogue: Philip Bacon Galleries] Irene Chou Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Qld., 1999. Octavo; folded brochure; full-colour illustrations. Minimal wear. Laid in: the A5-sized price list. Very good. Click here to order $10

87496 [Catalogue: Philip Bacon Galleries] John Olsen Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Qld., 2015. Landscape quarto; staple sewn pamphlet with illustrated wrappers; 12pp., with full-colour illustrations. Fine. Click here to order $15

87498 [Catalogue: Philip Bacon Galleries] John Young Strachan's Room Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Qld., 2009. Quarto; staple sewn pamphlet with illustrated wrappers; 12pp., with full-colour illustrations. A few marks. Near fine. Click here to order $15

86417 [Catalogue: Philip Bacon Galleries] Lawrence Daws Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Qld., 2002. Landscape quarto; staple sewn pamphlet with illustrated wrappers; 6pp., with full-colour illustrations (some folding). Minimal wear. Laid in: the A4 sized price list. Very good. Click here to order $15

86458 [Catalogue: Philip Bacon Galleries] Ray Crooke Song of the Islands Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Qld., 2002. Quarto; folded brochure; full-colour illustrations. Minor wear. Laid in: the A4-sized price list. Very good. Click here to order $10

86443 [Catalogue: Philip Bacon Galleries] Robert Barnes Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Qld., 1999. Octavo; folded brochure; full-colour illustrations. Minimal wear. Laid in: the folded A4-sized price list. Very good. Click here to order $10

86409 [Catalogue: Philip Bacon Galleries] Tim Storrier Recent Paintings Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane Qld., 1997. Landscape octavo; staple sewn pamphlet with illustrated wrappers; 4pp., with full-colour illustrations. Minimal wear. Laid in: the A5 sized price list. Very good. Click here to order $13

86466 [Catalogue: Vanessa Wood Fine Art Gallery] A.S.A.P. Artists Supporting Animal Preservation Vanessa Wood Fine Art Gallery/The Taronga Foundation, Mosman NSW, 2001. Octavo; folded, illustrated invitation to preview. Minimal wear. Fine. Click here to order $6

11418 Clark, Jane & Bridget Whitelaw Golden Summers Heidelberg and Beyond International Cultural Corporation, Melbourne, 1985. Paperback, quarto, 200pp., numerous monochrome and colour illustrations. Minor wear only; near fine. This book covers the most celebrated period in the history of Australian art: those years from 1885 until shortly after the turn of the century which were dominated by Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder and Fred McCubbin. Popularly known as the Heidelberg School, they ranged far beyond their own initial forays into the bush around Melbourne. They painted Sydney Harbour, ventured up the Hawkesbury River and also depicted Australia's emerging cities, pastoral industries and rapidly disappearing pioneering past. They delighted in its beaches and in leisured moments of Australian society taking its ease. They loved both the zenith landscape with the baking sun at high noon and a luminescent moment of moonrise. Above all they believed that the task for the Australian artist was to paint Australian realities. After the grave and splendid vision of colonial masters, painters of the Heidelberg School turned for inspiration to the grit of daily Australian experience. They won for themselves, their contemporaries and for future generations a rich and stirring poetry from the spectacle of a landscape being transformed into a country which bore its own distinctive identity. The Golden Summers exhibition which this book accompanied, brought together the nascent forces of Australian art with its artistic and philosophic impetus which gave rise to the Heidelberg School. The leading masters as well as their less well-known contemporaries are represented here. Click here to order $22

212687 Clark, Jane, & Felicity Druce Violet Teague 1872-1951 The Beagle Press, Roseville NSW, 1999. Quarto; gatefold paperback; 128pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; bump to the text block bottom corner; previous owner's ink inscription to the first page; previous owner's bookplate to the rear flap. Very good. Laid in: a thank-you card from the subject's relative. Exhibition catalogue. Contributions by Roger Butler; Anita Callaway; Jeanette Hoorn; Jacqueline Macnaughton; Richard Neville; Juliet Peers Kay Vernon; and Liz Ward. This copy used to belong to a relative of Violet Teague, Cynthia Teague. Click here to order $35

57211 Clark, Jane (with an essay by Patrick McCaughey) Sidney Nolan: Landscapes & Legends A Retrospective Exhibition 1937-1987 Cultural Corporation, Sydney NSW, 1987. Quarto paperback, 175pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Lightly toned and spotted text block edges. Very minor shelf and edge wear to cover. Very good to near fine otherwise. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $24

61255 Cross, David Peter D Cole Sculpture and Works on Paper 1992-1994 Australian Galleries, 1994. Square quarto paperback, 24pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear only; near fine. Click here to order $16

15126 Drysdale, Russell (Introduction by Paul Haefliger) Drysdale A Retrospective exhibition of paintings from 1937 to 1960 Ure Smith/Art Gallery NSW, Sydney NSW, nd. (1960). Square quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling and decorated endpapers; 68pp. on orange stock, with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Moderate wear; cocked; spine extremities softened; boards rubbed; mild toning to the page and text block edges; previous owner's ink inscription to the title page. Dustwrapper well-rubbed with some minor edgewear; slight chipping to the flap-turns; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive film. Very good. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $30

206232 Fisher, Tim The Drawings of Ian Fairweather National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT, 1997. Quarto; paperback; 64pp., with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; covers rubbed with some light creasing. Near fine. Click here to order $45

86481 [Flinders Lane Gallery] William Ferguson: Recent Painting Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, 2000.t. Octavo single card with colour reproduction. Fold to centre. Very good. Invitation to exhibition opening. Click here to order $4

211664 Fry, Gavin Adrian Lawlor A Portrait Heide Park and Art Gallery, Bulleen Vic., 1983. Landscape octavo; paperback; 82pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; spine sunned; covers a little scuffed. very good. Click here to order $17

208310 Gray, Jocelyn Early Australian Landscape Painters National Gallery of Victoria National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Vic., 1979. Revised: octavo; paperback, stapled brochure; 24pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; some mild creasing to the covers. Very good. Click here to order $10

64801 Hart, Deborah (ed.) Grace Cossington Smith National Gallery, Canberra, 2005. Quarto; paperback; 187pp., with many full-colour illustrations. Minor edgewear and scuffing to cover. Very good to near fine. "Grace Cossington Smith has long been considered an anomaly. Outwardly she was diffident and retiring; she generally dressed in a way that reflected her modesty. She lived a quiet life on the North Shore in Turramurra for most of her life and, unlike so many struggling artists, she was financially independent which enabled her to focus on her art. When she finally came to public prominence, at the time of her first retrospective, Cossington Smith was eighty one years of age, and many still hold in their minds the picture of her as a very proper, diminutive elderly artist. These images do not correspond with stereotypical viewpoints of an avant-garde artist, taken to task for being too radical by the critics in the 1920s and 30s. Yet from the time when she discovered a distinctive approach in her art she refused to compromise her vision and her best works were usually better than those of her modernist peers, especially her male peers. It is the art that endures, ... (she) was a complex, intriguing artist whose oeuvre is as varied as it is brilliant and distinctive." (foreword). Click here to order $40

81379 Hilder, J.J. J.J. Hilder and Contemporaries Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney NSW, 1982. Small square quarto; paperback, stapled booklet; unpaginated (20pp.), with monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; residue of sticker on lower corner of rear panel. Very good. Click here to order $14

200694 Hogan, Tim & Chris Deutsher Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Australian Paintings The Block Gallery, Melbourne Vic., 1978. Quarto stapled booklet; 52 monochrome plates. Minor wear only; very good. Click here to order $15

81377 Holden, Robert May Gibbs and Her Fantasy World: signed copy James Hardie, Sydney, 1984. Exhibition booklet produced for the Royal Botanic Gardens (Sydney) Exhibition. Signed octavo paperback; stapled booklet; unpaginated with colour and monochrome illustrations. Faint spotting to text block edges and small scrape on rear panel where a sticker has been removed. Very good to near fine otherwise. Click here to order $18

92746 Klepac, Lou Lloyd Rees, Brett Whiteley On the Road to Berry Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne Vic., 1993. Octavo; staple-sewn brochure; 20pp., with many monochrome and colour illustrations. Very minor wear only. Very good. Click here to order $20

93858 Klepac, Lou & Hendrik Kolenberg Francis Lymburner: Drawings Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery/ Beagle Press, Sydney, 1986. Oblong quarto paperback; 80pp., mainly monochrome illustrations. Rubbed white cover with black smudge mark on creased rear panel; mild wear to edges. Very good otherwise. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $25

207178 Klepac, Lou (Neal McCracken, illus.) G.W. Bot - Morphic Fields Hart Gallery, London, 2004. Quarto; paperback; unpaginated (28pp.), on laid paper, with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; covers lightly rubbed and edgeworn. Very good. Click here to order $22

200509 Latos-Valier, Paula, Elizabeth Westwater & Nancy Sibtain (eds.) Vision in Disbelief Biennale of Sydney 4 David Ell Press, Sydney NSW, 1982. Quarto; paperback; 224pp., with many colour and monochrome illustrations. Mild wear; light creasing and rubbing to the covers. Very good. laid in: festival calendar and promotional material. Click here to order $20

86467 McDonald, John Barbara Campbell Beyond Words Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, nd. Quarto folded brochure, four colour plates and accompanying essay. Crease to lower front corner; some rubbing to edges. Good. Click here to order $9

57858 McDonald, John Federation Australian Art and Society 1901-2001 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT, 2000. Quarto; paperback; 263pp., with many monochrome and colour illustrations. Mild wear; binding very slightly rolled; a few faint spots on text block edges; previous owner's name in ink. Very good to near fine. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $30

42753 Missingham, Hal Dobell: Retrospective Paintings from 1926-1964 Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney NSW, 1964 Quarto; stapled paperback; 26pp., with 15 monochrome and colour plates. Mild wear; covers scuffed; text block and page edges toned; mild edgewear. Souvenir Catalogue Click here to order $12

41919 Mollison, James Fred Williams: A Souvenir of the Artist's Works in the Australian National Gallery Australian National Gallery, 1987. Stapled quarto paperback, 48pp., colour illustrations. Minor wear; mild spotting to text block edges and minimal wear to yellow cover edges. Very good. Click here to order $20

95952 Olsen, John (Foreword by Anthony J. Grey) 'Gold' Pancontinental Mining Ltd., Sydney NSW, 1986 Square quarto; paperback; unpaginated (60pp.), with many colour illustrations. Minor wear. Near fine. Click here to order $30

95136 Olsen, John, with Andy Harris (Sowerby Smith, illus.) Culinaria The Cuisine of the Sun Tim Olsen Gallery, Woollahra NSW, 2010. Square quarto; paperback; 46pp., with many monochrome and colour illustrations. Light wear; some rubbing to the covers. Very good. "I had never, in a cloistered childhood, ever cooked, but I had with me from London - I don't know why - a copy of Elizabeth David's 'Mediterranean Cooking'. When I finally settled in Deia de Mallorca, I came to realise that all these splendid dishes derived from a peasant necessity - vegetables and fruits that naturally grew there. Spain was still recovering from a horrific civil war; consequently people were very poor, meat was very expensive - there was only one sheep killed a week. The painting in this exhibition 'The Butcher's Cart, Deia de Mallorca' is an enactment of how the meat was displayed in large chunks no matter which part it came from. The resulting scene had a primitive, animalistic vitality about it. I'm reminded that all art is memory of old-age things, dark things." - John Olsen Click here to order $20

200682 Orban, Desiderius Desiderius Orban Retrospective Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 1975. Octavo booklet; 55pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Owner's name. Browning to text block edges and well-rubbed cover edges; creased spine with owner's handwritten spine titling. Good to very good. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $20

81402 Radford, Ron, (Ed.) An Exhibition of Art Nouveau in Australia Art Gallery Directors Council, Ballarat, Vic., Australia, nd. (1980). Octavo; paperback, with illustrated upper cover and decorated endpapers; 87pp., with many mainly monochrome photographic illustrations. Some wear and rubbing to the wrappers. Very good. The exhibition surveyed the effects of Art Nouveau on all the arts in Australia, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, illustration, furniture, ceramics, metal work, leather repousse, textiles, stained glass and architecture. It constituted the first full appreciation of the complex influences of the style. Click here to order $25

86228 Reid, Barrett Of Dark and Light: The Art of John Perceval National Gallery of Victoria, 1992. Quarto paperback; 72pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Minimal wear; fine. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $35

61260 Sajet, Kim (curator) Geoffrey Bartlett Sculpture 1977-1994 Australian Galleries, 1994. Square quarto paperback, 31pp., colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear only; near fine. Click here to order $17

204040 Smart, Jeffrey, Edmund Capon & Germaine Greer Drawings and Studies 1942-2001 Australian Galleries Pty. Ltd./Australian Art Publishing Pty. Ltd., Collingwood Vic., 2001. Quarto; gatefold paperback; 208pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; covers lightly rubbed; some minor spotting to the preliminaries. Very good. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $45

11002 St John Moore, Felicity Charles Blackman Schoolgirls and Angels National Gallery, Melbourne Vic., 1993. Quarto; gatefold paperback; 142pp., colour plates. Exhibition catalogue. Light wear to card covers; and faint spotting on upper text block edges; else fine. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $200

61251 Stourton, Patrick Corbally (curator) Arthur Boyd Prints Australian Art in London Corbally Stourton Contemporary Art, London, nd. Stapled landscape quarto paperback catalogue, colour illustrations. Very minor wear only; fine. Click here to order $20

200230 Thomas, Daniel (ed.), with Ron Radford, et al. Creating Australia 200 Years of Art 1788-1988 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA, 1988. Quarto; paperback; 248pp., with many colour illustrations. Mild wear; slightly rolled; covers rubbed and edgeworn; some spotting to the text block edges; spine sunned and creased. Very good. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $25

61222 Trenerry, Elizabeth (ed.) John Borrack: signed by artist A Retrospective 1956 -1996 City of Whittlesea Art Gallery, South Morang, 1996. Quarto paperback, 96pp., colour illustrations. Minor wear only; near fine. Click here to order $45

30027 Williams, Fred (Patrick McCaughey, ed.) The Pilbara Series 1979-1981 CRA, Melbourne, 1985. Paperback, oblong quarto, 51pp. Mainly colour illustrations. Mild toning to cover edges and residue of sticker on rear panel. Near fine. Click here to order $30

210284 Wilson, Gavin Country & Western landscape re-imagined Gallery Services Townsville City Council, Townsville Qld., 2015. Square quarto; gatefold paperback; 129pp., with many colour illustrations. Minor wear; covers lightly rubbed and edgeworn; a bump to the spine head; a sticker ghost to the back cover. Very good. Exhibition catalogue. Click here to order $60