Criss Canning - The Pursuit of Beauty by David Thomas
$89.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Criss Canning is one of Australia's best loved and most celebrated still life artists. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the works of advanced European modernists, and with dedication to the absolutes of colour and pictorial composition, she has created paintings that are immediately seductive. One c ...Show more
Modern Australian Women Artists - Paintings, Prints and Pottery the Andree Harkness Collection by Andree Harkness (Introduction by); Isobel Crombie (Foreword by); Anne Gray; Caroline Jordan; Juliana Hooper
$110.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
A rich and focused collection of works by over fifty outstanding Australian women artists who worked in Australia and abroad between 1880 and 1960. This book also provides great insights into women's professional and economic strategies of the time, in a predominately male environment and how women play ...Show more
Painting the Ancient Land of Australia by Philip Hughes
$90.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
From Karinjini in the west to Fraser Island in the east, via the northern Kimberley and far southwest of Tasmania, Painting the Ancient Land of Australia follows painter Philip Hughes, palette in hand, across the length and breadth of the country. Hughes's work is defined by his breathtaking portrayals ...Show more
Ken Done Outback by Ken Done
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art | Series: Ken Done's Painting Australia Ser.
Rich reds, fuchsias, oranges, umbers, blacks, pinks and cadmium yellows abound in this ode to the Australian Outback. A delightful, compact package, Ken Done¿s Outback is one of four books in a collectable set exploring his most iconic landscapes.
Australian Galleries: The Purves Family Business: The First Four Decades 1956-1999 by CAROLINE FIELD
$100.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Written by art historian/curator Caroline Field, it is a history of the gallery from its formation by Anne and Tam Purves in 1956 to Anne's death in 1999.The gallery has represented some of Australia's finest artists, such as Boyd, Nolan and Smart. The author draws on unpublished archival material, incl ...Show more
Nikulinsky Naturally: An Artist's Life by Ted Snell; Hans Lambers; Angela Nikulinsky; Kingsley Dixon
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Artist Philippa Nikulinsky, AM, is a nationally and internationally recognised botanical illustrator. This book celebrates Philippa's extraordinary career from the mid-1970s to today. Specialising in plants from harsh environments, especially the Great Sandy Desert, Philippa's magnificent illustrations ...Show more
Present Tense: Anna Schwartz Gallery and Thirty-Five Years of Contemporary Australian Art
$65.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
This vivid and revealing account of thirty-five years of art and history revolves around the locus of the internationally renowned Anna Schwartz Gallery and its eponymous founder. Beginning in St Kilda with United Artists, visionary gallerist Anna Schwartz relocated to City Gallery at 45 Flinders Lane b ...Show more
Before Time Began by Jessica Healey,Georges Petitjean,Scholes
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
- Overview of the Aboriginal Art, focusing on the first large-scale exhibition staged by the Fondation Opale (Switzerland)The common thread running right through this work is man's link with the land, the legacy of the ancestors that still echoes in the present. It is no accident that Before Time Began ...Show more
Margaret Olley: A Generous Life by QAGOMA
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art | Series: A Generous Life
Margaret Olley was a deeply charismatic figure, mentor and friend, and exerted an enduring influence on a number of Australian artists, particularly in Queensland. This richly illustrated gift book pays tribute to Olley's art, friendships and philanthropy, and demonstrates her ongoing legacy.Margaret Ol ...Show more
Mirka Mora: A Life Making Art by Sabine Cotte
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Mirka Mora features a rich insight into the intellectual life and art practice of one of Australia's most versatile, creative and prolific modern artists. A Melbourne cultural icon, Mirka, along with her ex-husband Georges, was instrumental in helping to establish Australian modern art on a global stag ...Show more
A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art | Series: Across Australia from Bush to Coast
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar's words have a knack for swelling the metaphorical chest of many Austr ...Show more
Picturing the Pacific: Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and Flinders by James Taylor
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of a new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings--a sensational view of a part of the world few would ever see. Today these works represe ...Show more