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Illustration Index to Australian Art – codes & publications

Stephen Scheding — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:41:06 +0000

The ‘Illustration Index to Australian Art – Reproductions in art monographs and exhibition catalogues’, was compiled by Ray Choate and published by La Trobe University Library in 1990, It is currently online at

http://library.adelaide.edu.au/coll/artindex/index.html

This is an index to approximately 260 books and catalogues on Australian art, which provides titles of works of art used as illustrations. Information is given, when known, concerning the medium of the original, whether the illustration is in colour or black/white, and the page or other reference number in the text where the reproduction occurs. A four-letter code is given to each publication that has been indexed and a list of these codes and matching publications is below.

AAAN Australian art annual. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith. Sydney, Ure Smith Pty. Ltd., 1939. [Only one issue? Plates reissued as Australian art today without text, in 1940; also edited by S. Ure Smith with the same plate numbering.]

AAAR Aspects of Australian art 1900-1940: a touring exhibition from the collection of the Australian National Gallery, Canberra. Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1978.

AACM Deutscher Fine Art. Australian art — colonial to modern. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1985. [Exhibition 15-26 April 1985]

AAGA An Australian gardener’s anthology. Adelaide, Rigby, 1982.

AAIL Australian art illustrated. Sydney, A Royal Art Society Publication, 1947.

AALP Art Gallery of New South Wales. Australian arcady, landscape paintings from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1983.

AAMA Australian art masterpieces. South Yarra, Vic., Currey O’Neil, 1984.

AART Deutscher Fine Art. Australian art, 1820/1920. East Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1980. [Exhibition 3-21 November 1980]

AASC Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, 1930-1948. [by] Charles Merewether. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1984.

AATC Art Gallery of New South Wales. The artist and the city. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1983. [Travelling art exhibition]

AAVA Australia. Commonwealth Art Advisory Board. Antipodean vision: Australian painting: colonial, impressionist, contemporary. Melbourne, Cheshire, 1962.

ACAR Deutscher Fine Art. Australian colonial art. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1980. [Exhibition 28 April – 3 May 1980]

ACIP Deutscher Fine Art. Australian colonial and impressionist paintings. East Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1982. [Exhibition 22 March – 9 April 1982]

ACPP Art Gallery of South Australia. Catalogue of paintings, pastels, and sculpture in the Art Gallery. Adelaide, Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, 1926.

ACIM Deutscher Fine Art. Australian art: colonial to modern. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1985. [Exhibition 30 October – 15 November 1985]

AEWA Anderson, Roderick. Early Western Australian art: from the Robert Holmes à Court Collection. Perth, Heytesbury Holdings, Ltd, 1983.

AFOG The arts festival of the Olympic Games, Melbourne: a guide to the exhibitions with introductory commentaries on the arts in Australia. Melbourne, The Olympic Civic Committee of the Melbourne City Council for the Olympic Organizing Committee, 1956.

AGAA Anything goes: art in Australia 1970-1980. Edited by Paul Taylor. South Yarra, Vic., Art & Text, 1984.

AGNP Art Gallery of New South Wales. Picturebook. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1972.

ALIM Australian landscape in miniature. Text by Roy H. Goddard. Sydney, Legend Press, 1952.

ALOW The Australian landscape in oils and watercolour. Introduction by Hal Missingham. Sydney, Published by John Brackenreg, OBE for Australian Artists Editions, 1984?

ANIA Art nouveau in Australia… Exhibition organized through the Australian Gallery Directors Council and sponsored by the Crafts Board of the Australian Council. s.l., sn., 1980.

APAI The Archibald Prize: an illustrated history, 1921-1981. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982. [Reprinted from Art and Australia 20(2): 213-236, 1982]

APBS Art Gallery Board of South Australia. Picture books: selected works from the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Adelaide, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1972.

APCA The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Australian painters, 1964-1966: contemporary Australian painting from the Mertz Collection. Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1967.

APCC Deutscher Fine Art. Australian paintings colonial/contemporary. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1984. [Exhibition 2-19 April 1984]

APCI Deutscher Fine Art. Australian paintings: colonial, impressionist, early modern. Carlton, Vic., Deutscher Fine Art, 1983. [Exhibition 8-25 March 1983]

APHS Australian painters of the Heidelberg School: the Jack Manton Collection. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1979.

APNT Deutscher Fine Art. Australian painting: nineteenth and twentieth century. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1983. [Exhibition 17 October – 4 November 1983]

ARAA Art Gallery of New South Wales. Recent Australian art. Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1973. [Exhibition 18 October – 18 November 1973]

ASAT Art Gallery of South Australia. Australian landscape paintings. Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1970.

AUPA Deutscher Fine Art. Australian paintings, 1850-1950. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art. 1982. [Exhibition October/November 1982]

AUPC Deutscher Fine Art. Australian paintings: colonial/impressionist/early modern. Carlton, Vic., Deutscher Fine Art, 1984. [Exhibition 30 October – 16 November 1984]

AWAO Burke, Janine. Australian women artists: one hundred years: 1840-1940. Parkville, Vic., The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne University Union, 1975.

BAAA Benko, Nancy. Art and artists of South Australia. Adelaide, Published under the patronage of the Lidums family, 1969.

BAAE Bradley, Anthony and Smith, Terry. Australian art and architecture: essays presented to Bernard Smith. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1980.

BAAW Bardon, Geoff. Aboriginal art of the western desert. Adelaide, Rigby, 1979.

BACP Buscombe, Eve. Australian colonial portraits. Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1979.

BAEA Buscombe, Eve. Artists in early Australia and their portraits: a guide to the portrait painters of early Australia with special reference to colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land to 1850 with detailed biographies. catalogues of works and sources of Australian portraits. Sydney, Eureka Research, 1978.

BAIC Birtles, Dora. Australia in colour. Sydney, John Sands, 1946. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]

BAPA Butler, Roger. Australian prints: a souvenir book of Australian prints in the Australian National Gallery. Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1985.

BAWA Burke, Janine. Australian women artists, 1840-1940. Collingwood, Vic., Greenhouse Publications, 1980.

BBMA Battarbee, Rex and Battarbee, Bernice. Modern Aboriginal paintings. Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. [Volume is unpaged: illustrations in no particular order]

BFOC Brody, Annemarie. The face of the centre: Papunya Tula paintings. 1971-84. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1985.

BGAA Badham, Herbert. A gal1ery of Australian art. Sydney, Currawong Publishing Co., 1954.

BHP1 Art in BHP House. Melbourne, BHP, n.d. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]

BHP2 Art in BHP House. Melbourne, BHP, n.d.

BIIO Bonyhady, Tim. Images in opposition: Australian landscape painting 1801-1890. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985.

BISA Biennale of Sydney. [First] Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1973.

BISB Biennale of Sydney. [Second] Recent international forms in art: the 1976 Biennale of Sydney. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1976. [illustrations arranged alphabetically by artist]

BISC Biennale of Sydney. Third — European dialogue. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1979.

BISD Biennale of Sydney. [Fourth] Vision in disbelief. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1982.

BISE Biennale of Sydney. Fifth — private symbol: social metaphor. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1984. [Illustrations arranged alphabetically by artist]

BISF Biennale of Sydney. Sixth — origins, originality & beyond. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1986.

BMAA Battarbee, Rex. Modern Australian Aboriginal art. 2nd ed. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1958.

BMAP Bonython, Kym. Modern Australian painting, 1950-1975. Adelaide, Rigby, 1980.

BMAP75 Bonython, Kym. Modern Australian painting, 1975-1980. Adelaide, Rigby, 1980.

BMWL Butler, Roger. Melbourne: woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920’s and 1930’s. s.l., Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1981. [Part 1 has illustrations arranged in alphabetical order by artist; part 2 is an essay with unnumbered pages and no particular order to illustrations]

BOAP Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Outlines of Australian printmaking: prints of Australia from the last third of the 18th century, until the present time. Ballarat, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1976. [Volume is unpaged: illustrations in no particular order]

BSAA Badham, Herbert E. A study of Australian art. Sydney, Currawong Pub. Co., 1949.

BSFS Biven, Rachel. Some forgotten … some remembered: women artists of South Australia. Norwood, SA., Sydenham Gallery, 1976. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations are arranged in alphabetical order]

CAAA Craig, Edward R. Australian art auction records. 1975-1978. Ultimo, NSW, Mathews/Hutchinson, 1978.

CAAB Craig, Edward R. Australian art auction records, 1979-1981. Milson’s Point, NSW, The Currawong Press, 1982.

CAAC Craig, Edward R. Australian art auction records. 1982-1984. Mosman, NSW, Brolga Books, 1985.

CAIP Deutscher Fine Art. Colonial and impressionist paintings (and a selection of European paintings). East Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1981. [Exhibition 29 October – 13 November 1981]

CAPA Classic Australian paintings. South Yarra, Vic., Currey O’Neil Ross, 1983.

CAWP Campbell, Jean. Australian watercolour painters, 1780-1980: including an alphabetical listing of over 1200 painters. Adelaide, Rigby, 1983.

CBHS Astbury, Leigh City bushmen: the Heidelberg School and the rural mythology. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985.

CBPR Crumlin, Rosemary. The Blake Prize for religious art — the first 25 years: a survey. Clayton, Vic., Monash University Gallery, 1984.

CCEP Chapman, Barbara. The colonial eye: a topographical and artistic record of the life and landscape of Western Australia, 1798-1914. Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1979.

CENT Art Gallery of South Australia. The centre. Works on paper by Australian artists. Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1984.

CEVD Craig. Clifford. The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land. Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961.

CGEH Christesen, C. B. The gallery on Eastern Hill: the Victorian Artists’ Society centenary. Melbourne, Victorian Artists’ Society. 1970.

CGFL Caban, Geoffrey. A fine line: a history of Australian commercial art. Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1983.

CIPA Deutscher Fine Art. Colonial and impressionist paintings. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1982. [Exhibition July 1982]

CLIA Flower, Cedric. Clothes in Australia: a pictorial history, 1788-1980’s. Kenthurst, NSW. Kangaroo Press, 1984.

CMOT Craig, Clifford. More old Tasmanian prints: a companion volume to The Engravers of Van Diemen’s Land and Old Tasmanian Prints. Launceston, Tas., Foot & Playsted, 1984.

CPAA Counterclaims: presenting Australian art, 1938-1941. Christine Dixon and Dinah Dysart. Sydney, S. H. Ervin Gallery, 1986. [A satellite exhibition for the Sixth Biennale of Sydney]

CWAG Converting the wilderness: the art of gardening in colonial Australia. s.l., s.n., 1979.

CYOH Catalano, Gary. The years of hope: Australian art and criticism 1959-1968. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1981.

DAAC Durack, Noni and King, Pamela. Downs artists: a changing landscape. Toowoomba, Qld., Darling Downs Institute Press, 1984.

DAAF Dixon, Christine and Smith, Terry. Aspects of Australian figurative painting, 1942-1962. Sydney. The Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney in association with The Biennale of Sydney, 1984.

DACA Dutton, Geoffrey. The Australian collection: Australia’s greatest books. North Ryde, NSW, Angus & Robertson, 1985.

DACM Deutscher Fine Art. Australian art, colonial to modern. Carlton, Vic., Deutscher Fine Art, 1986. [Exhibition 9-25 April 1986]

DALC Dobson, Rosemary de Brissac. Australia, land of colour. through the eyes of Australian painters. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1962.

DAWL Draffin, Nicholas. Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920’s and 1930’s. South Melbourne, Sun Books, 1976.

DCBA Dolan, David. Charles Bannon, Australian printmaker: an aspect of Australian art, 1968-1982. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1982.

DCEN Dixon, Robert. The course of empire, neo-classical culture in New South Wales, 1788-1860. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1986.

DSAR Deutsher, Chris and Butler, Roger. A survey of Australian relief prints, 1900-1950. Armadale, Vic., Deutsher Galleries, 1978.

DSSS Dutton, Geoffrey. Sun, sea, surf and sand – the myth of the beach. Melbourne, Oxford Unlversity Press, 1985.

DSWL Deutsher Galleries. A selection of woodcuts & linocuts by Napier Waller and other Melbourne artists. Armadale, Vic., Deutsher Galleries, 1978. [Exhibition 18 August – 3 September 1978]

DVID Dutton, Geoffrey and Harris, Max. The vital decade. Ten years of Australian art and letters. Melbourne, Sun Books, 1968.

DWOB Dutton, Geoffrey. White on black: the Australian Aborigine portrayed in art. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1974.

EAFA Eureka! Artists from Australia. London, Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1982. [Exhibition held in 1982 in London]

EGBS Eagle, Mary and Minchin, Jan. The George Bell School: students, friends, influence. Melbourne, Deutscher Art Publications, 1981.

EHSA Evans, Susanna. Historic Sydney as seen by its early artists. Lane Cove, NSW, Doubleday, 1983.

ELAA Eleven Lithuanian artists in Australia. Edited by Vaclouas Ratas. Sydney, Lithuanian Community in Australia, 1967. (Volume is unpaged; illustrations arranged alphabetically by artist]

ELDA Elders IXL Collection: masterpieces of Australian painting and French Barbizon School: colonial, contemporary, continental. Adelaide, Elders IXL, 1985.

FAAS Feldheim, J. Australian art in the sixties: a book of engravings, reproduced from the famous paintings… Melbourne, J. Feldheim, 1915. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]

FAOP Flower, Cedric. The Antipodes observed: prints and print makers of Australia, 1788-1850. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1975.

FCIA Fletcher, Marion. Costume in Australia, 1788-1901. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984.

FDAP Fifteen decades of Australian paintings. Sydney, Published by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and sponsored by the Sydney Morning Herald, 1981.

FEAE Flower, Cedric. Erotica: aspects of the erotic in Australian art. South Melbourne, Sun, 1977.

FGAI Fry, Ella. Gallery images. Perth, St. George Books, 1984.

FGIP The first gallery in Paddington: the artists and their work tell the story of the Rudy Komon Art Gallery. Sydney, Edwards & Shaw, 1981.

FIEL National Gallery of Victoria. The field. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1969?

FINE Finemore, Brian. Painting. Melbourne, Longmans, 1961.

FMAP Findley, Donald J. Modern Australian painting. London, Beaverbrook Newspapers, Ltd., 1963.

FMAW Fry, Gavin and Gray, Anne. Masterpieces of the Australian War Memorial. Adelaide, Rigby, 1982.

FOHC Focus on the Hinton Collection. North Sydney, Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Regional Development Program, n.d.

FSBS Finney, Colin Michael. To sail beyond the sunset: natural history in Australia. 1699-1829. Adelaide, Rigby, 1984.

GAGA Germaine, Max. Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, Lansdowne Editions, 1979.

GAGB Germaine, Max. Artists and galleries of Australia. Brisbane, Boolarong Publications, 1984.

GALP Great Australian landscape paintings. Selected by the Editors of the Australian Art Library. Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1973.

GAPA Gleeson, James. Australian painters… Sydney, Lansdowne Press, 1976.

GBSG Burchell, L. and Pullin, R. The galleries book: a student guide to the public galleries of Victoria. Melbourne, Edresources Pty. Ltd., 1984.

GCPA Gleeson, James. Colonial painters, 1788-1880. St. Kilda, Vic., Lansdowne, 1971.

GDAA The great decades of Australian art: selected masterpieces from the J.G.L. Collection. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1984.

GEAL Gray, Jocelyn. Early Australian landscape painters. Rev. ed., Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1979. [First published as Early Australian paintings. see GEAP]

GEAP Gray, Jocelyn Early Australian paintings. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1967. [See GEAL]

GIPA Gleeson, James. Impressionist painters, 1881-1930. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1971.

GMAP Gleeson, James. Masterpieces of Australian painting. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1969.

GMPA Gleeson, James. Modern painters, 1931-1970. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1971.

GSHB Clark, Jane and Whitelaw, Bridget. Golden summers: Heidelberg and beyond. Melbourne, International Cultural Corporation of Australia, Ltd., 1985.

GVTR Glover, Anne. Victorian treasures from the La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria. Melbourne, Macmillan, 1980.

HAAP Hall, Rodney. Australians aware: poems and paintings of today. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1975.

HALC Hill, Ernestine. Australia: land of contrasts. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith. Sydney, John Sands, 1943. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]

HAOA Hughes, Robert. The art of Australia. Rev. ed. Ringwood, Vic., Penguin, 1970.

HAPF Hetherington, John. Australian painters: forty profiles. Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1963.

HAPS Australian painters of the 70’s. Edited by Mervyn Horton. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1975.

HFOM Hill, Marji and McLeod, Neil. From the ochres of Mungo: Aboriginal art today. West Heidelberg, Vic., Dorr/McLeod Publishing, 1984.

HJCA Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn. The convict artists. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1977.

HLTW Harris, Max and Forbes, Alison. The land that waited. Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1967.

HNGV Hoff, Ursula and Plant, Margaret. National Gallerv of Victoria: painting, drawing, sculpture. Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1968.

HOAA Heritage of Australian art: reflections of the history of Australian painters and paintings. Introduced by William Kelly. South Melbourne, Macmillan, published in association with the Australian Information Service, 1984.

HPDA Horton, Mervyn, ed. Present day art in Australia. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1969.

HRPR Haese, Richard. Rebels and precursors: the revolutionary years of Australian art. Ringwood, Vic., Allen Lane, 1981.

HSCW Hawthorn, Bill. Some contemporary Western Australian painters and sculptors. Nedlands, WA., Apollo Press, 1982.

HYAP The heroic years of Australian painting, 1940-1965. Melbourne, Herald & Weekly Times, Ltd., 1977. [Exhibition catalogue]

IIAA Illustration index to Australian art. Compiled by Ray Choate. Bundoora, Vic., La Trobe University Library, La Trobe University, 1990.

IMOT Ingram, Terry. A matter of taste: investing in Australian art. Sydney, Collins, 1976.

INTE Interiors. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1981.

ITMA In the making. Edited by Craig McGregor. Melbourne, Thomas Nelson (Australia), 1969.

ITOV The illustrated treasury of Australian verse. Chosen by Beatrice Davis. Melbourne, Nelson, 1984.

JBAA Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1969… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1969.

JBAB Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1970… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1970.

JBAC Joseph Brown Gallery. Recent acquisitions. Winter 1970… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1970.

JBAD Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1970.

JBAE Joseph Brown Gallery. Exhibition of Australian marine painting… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1970.

JBAF Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1971… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1971.

JBAG Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1971… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1971.

JBAH Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1971… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1971.

JBAI Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1972… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1972.

JBAJ Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1972… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1972.

JBAK Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1972… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1972.

JBAL Joseph Brown Gallery. Contemporary Australian portraits…Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1972.

JBAM Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1973… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1973.

JBAN Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1973… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1973.

JBAO Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1973… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1973.

JBAP Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1974… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1974.

JBAQ Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1974… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1974.

JBAR Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1974… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1974.

JBAS Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1975… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1975.

JBAT Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1975… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1975.

JBAU Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1975… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1975.

JBAV Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1976… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1976.

JBAW Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1976… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1976.

JBAX Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1977… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1977.

JBAY Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1977… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1977.

JBAZ Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1977… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1977.

JBBA Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1978… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1978.

JBBB Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1978… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1978.

JBBC Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1979… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1979.

JBBD Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1979… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1979.

JBBE Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1980… Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1980.

JBBF Joseph Brown Gallery. [Exhibition. 10-24 September 1981] Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1981.

JBBG Joseph Brown Gallery. [Exhibition 1-14 September 1982] South Yarra, Vic., Joseph Brown Gallery, 1982.

JEAA Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, organized by the Plastic Arts Committee for the Commonwealth Jubilee Exhibition. 1951. [Sydney, Ure Smith, 1951]

KCAP Kempf. Franz. Contemporary Australian printmakers. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1976.

KRAA Knorr, Hilde and Knorr, Hans. Religious art in Australia. Melbourne, Longmans, 1967.

LALA Lynn, Elwynn. The Australian landscape and its artists. Sydney, Bay Books, 1977.

LANC Lloyd, Clem and Sekuless, Peter. Australia’s national collections. North Ryde, NSW, Cassell Australia, 1980.

LAND Landfall: the Captain James Cook bi-centenary exhibition of Australian art. Introduction by Ann Galbally. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1970. [Illustrations arranged by date]

LAPP Lehmann, Geoffrey. Australian primitive painters. St. Lucia, Qld., University of Queensland Press, 1977.

LAQO Lahey, Vida. Art in Queensland. 1859-1959. Brisbane, Published for the Queensland National Art Gallery by the Jacaranda Press, 1959.

LASR The Launceston Art Society in retrospect, 1891-1983. Launceston, Tas., Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, 1983. [Exhibition 18 May – 3 July 1983]

LCDR Lynn, Elwynn. Contemporary drawing. Melbourne, Longmans, 1963.

LGMP Luck, R. K. A guide to modern Australian painting. Melbourne, Sun Books, 1969.

MAAA McCaughey, Patrick. Australian abstract art. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1969.

MAAD McGrath, Sandra and Olsen, John. The artist and the desert. Sydney, Bay Books, 1981.

MAAG McCulloch, Alan. Artists of the Australian gold rush. Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1977.

MAIA Macgeorge, Norman. The arts in Australia. Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1948.

MALA Morris, Myra. Australian landscape. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith. Sydney, John Sands, 1944. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]

MALC Mudie, Ian. Australian landscapes in colour. Adelaide, Rigby, 1975.

MANG Mollison, James and Murray, Laura, eds. Australian National Gallery: an introduction. Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1982.

MANP McCullough, Bianca. Australian naive painters. Melbourne, Hill of Content, 1977.

MBAA Melba’s Gift book of Australian art and literature. Introduction by Nellie Melba. Melbourne, George Robertson and Co., 1915.

MBST McQueen, Humphrey. The black swan of trespass: the emergence of modernist painting in Australia to 1944. Sydney, Alternative Publishing Co-operative Ltd., 1979.

MCAA My country: Australian poetry and short stories, two hundred years. Volume 1. Sydney, Lansdowne Press, 1985.

MCAB My country: Australian poetry and short stories, two hundred years. Volume 2. Sydney, Lansdowne Press, 1985.

MCMI Millar, Ronald. Civilized magic: an interpretive guide to Australian paintings. London, Thames & Hudson, 1975.

MCWA Mason, Murray, ed. Contemporary Western Australian painters and printmakers. Fremantle, WA, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1979.

MDIA McKenzie, Janet. Drawing in Australia: contemporary images and ideas. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1986.

MEAA McCulloch, Alan. Encyclopedia of Australian art. Richmond, Vic., Hutchinson, 1968.

MEAB McCulloch, Alan. Encyclopedia of Australian art. Volume one. Hawthorn, Vic., Hutchinson, 1984.

MEAC McCulloch, Alan. Encyclopedia of Australian art. Volume two. Hawthorn, Vic., Hutchinson, 1984.

MEMW McCullough, Bianca, comp. Each man’s wilderness: reflections by Australian artists. Adelaide, Rigby, 1980.

MGSL Mourot, Suzanne and Jones, Paulette. The great south land, treasures of the Mitchell and Dixson Libraries and Dixson Galleries. South Melbourne, Sun Books, 1979.

MMHA Muir, Marcie. A history of Australian childrens book illustration. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1982.

MOAP Terry, Martin. Masterpieces of Australian painting. Sydney, Bay Books, 1984.

MORN McCulloch, Alan. Selected drawings from the collection of the Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre. Mornington, Vic., Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, 1983.

MSAA Moore, William. The story of Australian art, from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today. Volume one. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1934. [Facsimile reprint 1980] [Illustration on unnumbered page; reference is to nearest numbered page]

MSAB Moore, WiIllam. The story of Australian art, from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today. Volume two. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1934. [Facsimile reprint 1980] [illustration on unnumbered page; reference is to nearest numbered page]

MSBM Mr. Sandman bring me a dream. Andrew Crocker, ed. Alice Springs, NT, Papunya Tula Artists, and Sydney, The Aboriginal Artists Agency, 1981.

MSHP McGrath, Sandra. Sydney Harbour, paintings from 1794. Milton, Qld., Jacaranda Press, 1979.

NAA1 Norris, Graeme. Australian artists today. Frankston, Vic., Gallery Press, 1974.

NAA2 Norris, Graeme. Australian artists today. 2nd. ed. Seaford, Vic., Graeme Norris, 1979.

NAA3 Norris, Graeme. Australian artists today. 3rd ed. Carlton, Vic., Graeme Norris, 1984.

NATC Hogan, Tim and Deutsher, Chris. Nineteenth and twentieth century Australian art. Melbourne, Deutsher Fine Art, 1978. [A joint exhibition 28 September – 5 November 1978]

NFFD National Gallery of Victoria. Freedom from prejudice: an introduction to the Australian collection in the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1977.

NGSA National Gallery of South Australia. Catalogue: oil and water colour paintings and pastels with biographical, critical. descriptive and historical notes. 5th ed. Adelaide, National Gallery Board, 1946. [Illustrations on unnumbered pages]

NLOB National Gallery of Victoria. Looking back. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1975. [Travelling art exhibition, 1975]

NNSW National Art Gallery of New South Wales. 150 years of Australian art. Sydney, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1938. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]

NTCA Hogan, Tim and Deutsher, Chris. Nineteenth and twentieth century Australian art, 12 July – 18 August 1979: a joint exhibition. Melbourne, Block Gallery, Armadale, Vic., Deutsher Galleries, 1979.

OMTC Orange Regional Gallery. The Mary Turner Collection. Orange, NSW, Orange Regional Gallery. 1983.

ONTB On the beach. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982.

OVWA 150 Victorian women artists. By Women 150. Melbourne, Women 150, 1985. [Illustrations arranged alphabetically by artist]

PAPA Painted Panorama, 1800-1870: paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales. Sydney, The Blaxland Gallery, Grace Brothers, 1985.

PAFT Pringle, John Douglas. Australian paiting today. London, Thames & Hudson, 1963.

PARA Australian art review. Edited by Leon Paroissien. Rozelle, NSW, Warner Brothers Publication, 1982.

PARB Australian art review 2. Edited by Leon Paroissien. Melbourne, Warner Associates with Oxford University Press, 1983.

PCAL Pearce, Barry. A century of Australian landscape: mood and movement. Sydney, Published by the International Cultural Corporation of Australia Ltd., by the Eagle Press, 1983.

PCAP Private collection, Australian paintings 1830-1930. Canberra, Department of the Capital Territory in association with the National Trust of Australia, ACT, 1981.

PEGF Deutscher Fine Art. Painters and engravers from the gold-fields; focusing on Victoria: the 1850s onwards. Carlton, Vic., Deutscher Fine Art, 1983. [Exhibition 21 June – 8 July 1983]

PERA Australian perspecta 1981: a biennial survey of contemporary Australian art. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1981.

PERB Australian perspecta 1983: a biennial survey of contemporary Australian art. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1983.

PERC Australian perspecta ’85. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1985.

PHTA Pearce, Cedric and Pearce, Ian. Hobart town album 1804-1850, by various artists. Hobart, Fullers Bookshop, 1967.

PMAA Philip Morris Arts Grant. Australian art of the last ten years. Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1982.

POAG Portrait of a gallery. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1984.

POTG Pleasure of the gaze: image and appearance in recent Australian art. Exhibition curated by Bruce Adams. Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1985.

PSHB Prunster, Ursula. The Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932-1982. Sydney, Angus & Robertson in association with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982.

QAAP Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania. Australian art in prints, 1970-1980: works from the Oueen Victoria Museum. Launceston, Tasmania, Queen Victoria Museum. 1980.

QAGS Queensland Art Gallery. Selected works. South Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery, 1982.

QUWO Queensland works, 1950-1985: a survey of 80 painters. St. Lucia, Qld, University of Queensland, University Art Museum, 1985. [Honours the 75th Anniversary of the University of Queensland]

RAA1 Reid, John. Australian artists at war, compiled from the Australian War Memorial Collection. Vol.I, 1885-1925. South Melbourne, Sun Books, 1977.

RAA2 Reid, John. Australian artists at war, compiled from the Australian War Memorial Collection. Vol.II, 1940-1970. South Melbourne, Sun Bcoks, 1977.

RALP Reed, John. Australian landscape painting. Melbourne, Longmans, 1965.

REAA Rienits, Rex and Rienits, Thea. Early artists of Australia. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1963.

RFBE Rich, Margaret. From the beginnings of European settlement: a collection of Australian watercolours and drawings,1800-1983. Ballarat, Vic., Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1983.

RFYA Royal Art Society of New South Wales. Fifty years of Australian art: 1879-1929. Sydney, Royal Art Society Press, 1929.

RMAA Reid, Barrie. Modem Australian art: a Melbourne collection of paintings and drawings. Melbourne, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, 1958?

RNPA Reed, John. New painting 1952-62. Melbourne, Longmans, 1963.

RRAP Radford, Ron. Recent Australian painting: a survey 1970-1983. Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1983.

SAAA Small, Alison. Art and artists of Australia. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1981. [Illustrations on unnumbered pages; reference is to nearest numbered page]

SAEP Deutscher Fine Art. A selection of Australian and European paintings, 1820-1920. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1981. [Exhibition 11-29 May 1981]

SAGC Shepparton Art Gallery. Catalogue of the permanent collection. Shepparton, Vic., Shepparton Art Gallery, 1975.

SAIL Simpson, Colin. Australian image: landscape by Australian painters with text. Sydney, Australian Art Editions, 1956.

SAIP Splatt, William and Bruce, Susan. Australian impressionist painters: a pictorial history of the Heidelberg School. Windsor, Vic., Currey O’Neil, 1981.

SAOA Smith, Sydney Ure. Art of Australia, 1788-1941: an exhibition of Australian art held in the United States of America and the Dominion ot Canada under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation. New York, Published for the Carnegie Corporation by the Museum of Modern Art, 1941.

SAPA Smith, Bernard. Australian painting, 1788-1970. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1971.

SAPT The seventies: Australian paintings and tapestries from the collection of National Australia Bank. Melbourne, National Bank of Australasia Ltd., 1982.

SEVA Smith, Bernard. European vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850: a study in the history of art and ideas. Oxford, the Clarendon Press, 1960.

SEVB Smith, Bernard. European vision and the South Pacific. 2nd. ed. Sydney, Harper & Row, 1984.

SHEM S. H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery. The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian paintings. Dinah Dysart. Sydney, The National Trust of Australia (New South Wales), 1983.

SLAA Society of Latvian Artists in Australia. Latvian artists in Australia. Sydney, Society of Latvian Artists in Australia, 1979.

SLAB Speirs, Hugh. Landscape art and the Blue Mountains… Chippendale, NSW, Alternative Publishing Co-operative Ltd, 1981.

SOAA Society of Artists book, 1942. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1942.

SOAB Society of Artists book, 1943. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1943.

SOAC Society of Artists book, 1944. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1944.

SOAD Society of Artists book, 1945-46. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1946?

SOAE Society of Artists book, 1946-7. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1947?

SOMA Splatt, William. 100 masterpieces of Australian painting. Adelaide, Rigby, 1973.

SOYA Sayers, Andrew. 100 years of Australian drawing. Sydney, Bay Books, 1985.

SPDA Smith, Sydney Ure. Present day art in Australia. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1949. [New and revised edition of vols. 1 and 2 of Present day art in Australia; vol.1 is entitled Australian present day art and vol.2 is entitled Present day art in Australia]

SPRI Seidel, Brian. Printmaking. Melbourne, Longmans, 1965.

SPTA Smith, Bernard. Place, taste and tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788. Sydney, Ure Smith Pty. Ltd., 1945.

SPTB Smith, Bernard. Place, taste and tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788. 2nd ed. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1979.

STAL Splatt, William and Burton, Barbara. A treasury of Australian landscape painting. Melbourne, Currey O’Neil, 1980. [First published 1977]

STAP Splatt, William and Burton, Barbara. A treasury of Australian painting. Adelaide, Rigby, 1976.

TAAD A treasury of Australian art from the David Levine Collection. Adelaide, Rigby, 1981.

TAAR Thomas, Daniel. Australian art in the 1870s. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1976.

TABP A treasury of Australian bush painting. Notes on the painters by Susan Bruce. Adelaide, Rigby, 1979.

TAHB Turnbull, Clive. Art here, Buvelot to Nolan. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1947.

TAPA Deutscher Fine Art. 30 Australian paintings. East Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1980. (Exhibition 15 September – 30 October 1980]

TASM Tasmania visited. Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1981. [Exhibition 3 November 1981 – 17 January 1982]

TBAC Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery. Annual collectors exhibition. October/November 1985. Sydney, Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, 1985.

TOAA Thomas, Daniel. Outlines of Australian art: the Joseph Brown Collection. Expanded edition. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1980.

TTAC Topliss, Helen. The artist’s camps: plein air painting in Melbourne, 1885-1898. Clayton. Vic., Monash University Gallery, 1984. TTYA Thomas, Laurie. 200 years of Australian painting. Sydney, Bay Books, 1977.

UMEG University of Melbourne. Ewing and George Paton Galleries. The Ewing Collection. s.l., s.n., 1981.

VAAP Victoria & Albert Museum. Australian prints; exhibition July-November. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1972.

VALH Art and letters; Hassell’s Australian miscellany, 1921-2. Edited by Edward A. Vidler. Adelaide and Melbourne. The Hassell Press, 1922?

VAVS Arts Victoria 75. The visual arts in Victoria; a survey. Melbourne, Victorian Ministry for the Arts, 1975. (Also appeared as a special issue of Art and Australia, Jan-Mar 1975]

VIVI Victorian vision: 1834 onwards; images and records from the National Gallery of Victoria and the State Library of Victoria. By Christine Downer and Jennifer Phipps. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1985.

VPOX Vox Pop, into the eighties. Edited by Robert Lindsay. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1983.

VVCA Victorian views by contemporary artists. Co-curated by Joe Pascoe and Svetlana Karovich. Benalla, Vic., Benalla Art Gallery, 1985.

WAAR Western Australian artists, 1920-1950. Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1980. [Exhibition 12 September – 19 October 1980]

WADT Whitelaw, Bridget. Australian drawings of the thirties and forties in the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1980.

WALD Whitelaw, Bridget. Australian landscape drawing, 1830-1880, in the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1976.

WCAD Western Australian Art Gallery. Contemporary Australian drawing. Perth, Western Australian Art Gallery, 1978.

WDAP Wood, Lilian, ed. Directory of Australian printmakers, 1976. Melbourne, Print Council of Australia, 1976.

WDAP82 Wood, Lilian, ed. Directory of Australian printmakers, 1982. Melbourne, Print Council of Australia, 1982.

WOAC Works of art in Canberra. Volume 1. Canberra, National Capital Development Commission, 1980.

WOAD Works of art in Canberra. Volume 2. Canberra, National Capital Development Commission. 1986.

ZSGA Zimmer, Jenny. Stained glass in Australia. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984.

A Basic Bibliography of Australian Art

Stephen Scheding — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:59:57 +0000

A list of useful, if not essential, resources for researching Australian art. (The emphasis is on books which also include biographical information or ‘leads’ on lesser-known Australian artists. The following list is in no way complete. Contemporary artists do not really enter the scope of this survey, nor does it adequately cover photography, architecture, ceramics etc. Aboriginal art is barely covered. I am in the process of developing a bibliography of printed material related to all Australian art and there are currently over 10,000 items entered in my computer database. A summary of this project appears at the end of this basic bibliography).

The standard general histories (in order of publication):

William Moore, The Story of Australian Art, 2 vols, Angus & Robertson, 1934. (Includes a dictionary of Australian artists but is perhaps more useful now for its extensive 23-page index).

Herbert Badham, A Study of Australian Art, Currawong Publishing, 1949 (and Badham’s companion’ book A Gallery of Australian Art, Currawong Publishing, 1954)

Bernard Smith, Australian Painting, Oxford University Press, 1962. (This is my sentimental favourite being the first book I purchased on Australian art. Possibly my favourite book on Australian art is Smith’s The Boy Adeodatus,Alan Lane, 1984.See also Bernard Smith’s Place Taste and Tradition, Ure Smith, 1945, European Vision & the South Pacific 1768-1850, Oxford University Press, 1960, Documents on art and taste in Australia, OUP, 1975 and The Antipodean Manifesto – Essays in Art and History, OUP, 1976).

Clive Turnbull, Elizabeth Young, Daniel Thomas, Australian Painting – Colonial, Impressionist, Contemporary, Griffin Press, softcover, 1962. Also published in hardcover as Antipodean Vision).

Robert Hughes, The Art of Australia, Penguin, 1966.

James Gleeson, Australian Painters – Colonial 1788 – 1880, Impressionists 1881 -1930, Modern 1931 – 1970, Lansdowne Press, 1971 and subsequent editions (previously published in three separate volumes).

Geoffrey Searle, The Creative Spirit in Australia – A Cultural History, William Heinemann, 1987 (originally published as From Deserts the Prophets Come, William Heinemann, 1973).

Graeme Sturgeon The Development of Australian Sculpture, 1788 – 1975, Thames & Hudson, 1978.

Daniel Thomas (edited and introduced by), Creating Australia, 200 Years of Art 1788-1988, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1988.

Daniel Thomas, Outlines of Australian Art [the Joseph Brown Collection], Macmillan, 1989 (two previous editions in 1973 and 1980).

Marcie Muir, A history of Australian children’s book illustration, OUP, 1982.

Jean Campbell, Australian Watercolour Painters 1780 to the Present Day, Craftsman House, 1989 (second edition). (Includes alphabetical extensive listing of biographies of painters in watercolour).

Robert Holden, A Golden Age – Visions of Fantasy, Australia’s Fantasy Illustrators: Their lives and works, Angus & Roberston, 1992 (volume one of two volumes).

Vivien Johnson, Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert, Craftsman House, 1994. (Biographical details of several hundred artists).

Mary Eagle and John Jones, A Story of Australian Art, Macmillan, 1994 (based on the ICI Collection, now mostly in the Kerry Stokes Collection. There are also useful catalogues of other corporate collections such as the Elders-IXL Collection, 1986, and the ANZ Collection, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 2006)).

Christopher Allen, Art in Australia, Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Andrew Sayers, Australian Art, Oxford University Press, Oxford History of Art series, 2001.

Janusz B. Kreczmanski and Margo Birnberg, Aboriginal Artists – dictionary of biographies, Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberly Region, J. B. Publishing, 2004. (Includes the names of more than 1000 Aboriginal artists and biographical data).

Susan McCulloch, McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Complete Guide, McCulloch & McCulloch, 2009

Wally Caruana, Aboriginal Art, Thames & Hudson, 1993.

Howard Morphy, Aboriginal Art, Phaidon, 2001.

Roger Butler, Printed, 3 vols., including Printed images in colonial Australia 1801 – 1901, Printed images by Australian artists 1885- 1955 and Printed images by Australian artists 1955 – 2005, NGA, 2007-10. (The most extensive coverage of printmaking in Austraia).

John McDonald, Art of Australia, Pan Macmillan, Vol 1 (of three planned volumes) 2008.

[See also publications by public galleries which document their Australian collections such as Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, NGA, 2002, or Brought to Light – Australian Art 1850-1965 From the Queensland Art Gallery Collection, edited by Lynne Seear & Julie Ewington, QAG, 1998.

See also the many critical commentaries published in the past twenty years, such as The Necessity of Australian Art by Ian Burn, et al, The Australian Scapegoat by Peter Fuller and Ghost Nation – Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901- 1939 by Laurie Duggan, which are not included here].

Dictionaries, checklists, encyclopedias and indexes:

Australian Art – Artist’s working names authority list, compiled by Helen Maxwell, assisted by Philippa Kelly, Australian National Gallery, 1990, 489 pp. (First published 1983, updated September, 1989.A project to standardise the names of Australian artists, the alphabetical listing also provides birth and death dates where known. A note in the introduction says that: ‘Minor 20^th-century names are too numerous to be welcome on the list at this stage’. My estimate is that about 6250 names are recorded).

Often the best starting point when searching for information on a particular artist is the Australian Artists’ Index – A Biographical Index of Australian Artists, Craft Workers, Photographers and Architects by Jan Macdonald, published by the Arts Libraries Socirty, Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, 1986. This lists about 10,000 artists who are referred to in at least one of over 400 books relating to Australian art.

Art and Artists to 1950: a bibliography based on the holdings of the State Library of Victoria. State Library of Victoria , 1982. (This includes exhibition catalogues held and books illustrated by artists).

McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Autralian Art(There are earlier editions and these are worth checking for individual artists who may have dropped out of the 2007 edition).

The Dictionary of Australian Art – painters, sketchers, photographers and Engravers to 1870, edited by Joan Kerr,Oxford University Press, 1992.(Now updated and online – see website below).

Heritage – The National Women’s Art Book – 500 works by 500 Women Artists from Colonial Times to 1935, edited by Joan Kerr, Art & Australia/Craftsman House, 1995.

Dictionary of Australian Biography, Index for Vols 1 – 12, Melbourne University Publishing, 1991.

Artists & Galleries of Australia, 2 vols., by Max Germaine, Craftsman House, 1990. (There are earlier editions and these are worth checking for individual artists who may have dropped out of the latest edition).

Renniks Australian Artists by John Kroeger, Renniks, 1968. (This provides basic biographical information on those artists represented in public galleries prior to 1968).

Who’s Who of Australian Visual Artists, Thorpe in association with National Association for the Visual Arts, 1991 (fist edition, 356pp), 1995 (2^nd edition, 395pp)

Directory of Australian Printmakers, edited by Lilian Wood, Print Council of Australia, 1976. Second edition 1982. (The 1982 edition lists over 300 printmakers with biographies, exhibition details, etc, and the 1988 edition lists 560 entries and is illustrated).

A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, by Max Germaine, Craftsman House, 1991. (Women artists exhibiting around the time of publication).

Juliet Peers, More than Just Gumtrees – A Personal, Social and Artistic History of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors in association with Dawn Revival Press, 1993. (Includes alphabetic listing of artists’ biographical entries).

Ambrus, Caroline (compiled by), The Ladies’ Picture Show – Sources on a century of Australian women artists, Hale & Ironmonger, 1984. (Australian women artits are listed in alphabetical order. Extremely useful for the lists of newspaper reviews of their exhibitions ).

Ken Scarlett, Australian Sculptors, Thomas Nelson, 1980, 730pp. (Alphabetical listing of sculptors with biographical information which often includes reviews and other primary sources).

Fifty Years of Australian Art 1879 – 1929, published by the Royal Art Society Press, 1929. (While this provides a ‘biographical list’ of about 60 artists who exhibited with the RAS, it is more useful for its ‘List of Exhibitors 1879 – 1929’. Hundreds of names of obscure artists are listed, together with the date of joining, or first exhibiting with, the Society).

The Studio Tradition – National Art School 1883 – 2001, exhibition at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 2001, curated by Therese Kenyon, p39. (This lists students and teachers but does not claim to be complete).

Von Guerard to Wheeler – The First Teachers at the National Gallery School 1870 – 1939, exhibition catalogue published by the Victorian College of the Arts, 1978, 20pp. (This includes brief biographies of nine teachers but, more importantly, it lists students enrolled from 1870 and also prize winners in the various schools).

Art in Australia 1916- 1942, Artist Index (preliminary version for limited circulation), [State]Library of NSW, 1973. (Alphabetical index of all artists whose work is illustrated in Art in Australia – published between 1916 and 1942 – together with the titles of works illustrated).

Art & Australia, a quarterly periodical, index for the years 1963 – 1973.

Fine Art Exhibitions in Brisbane 1884 – 1916, by Julie K. Brown and Margaret Maynard, Fryer Memorial Library, 1980, 227pp. (Has ‘biographies of selected artists’ but most importantly lists all exhibitors with the various Queensland art societies together with the titles of exhibits).

Helen Fridemanis, Artists and Aspects of the Contemporary Art Society – Queensland Branch, Boolarong Publications, 1991. (Includes biographies of exhibiting artists)

Keith Bradbury and Glenn R. Cooke, Thorns and Petals – 100 Years of the Royal Queensland Art Society, RQAS, 1988. (Includes an extensive chronology).

Edward D. Craig, Australian Art Auction Records, vol. 1 1973-5 to vol. 13 2001-3. (Also online, see below)

Australian Art Sales Directory, (Also online, see below)

Anthony Bradley, Handlist of Fine Arts Fourth Year Essays and Theses 1971 – 1988 in the Power Institute Research Library of Contemporary Art, Power Institute of Fine Arts Occasional Paper No. 8, 1990. (I estimate that over 3000 essays are listed. It may be possible that other university art history departments have such listings. Access to the actual essays may well be restricted).

General, useful, or well-illustrated books (or ‘compendiums’ of information) listed by period (approximately).

Bernard Smith and Alwyne Wheeler, editors, The Art of the First Fleet and other early Australian drawings. Selected from Australian subjects of the period in the British Natural History Museum, OUP, Melbourne. 1988

Lisa Di Tommaso, The Art of the First Fleet, Hardie Grant Books, 2012.

Louise Anemaat, Natural Curiosity – Unseen art of the First Fleet, SLNSW, 2014, 256pp with index.

Tim McCormick, First Views of Australia 1788 – 1825 – A history of early Sydney, David Ell Press/Logueville Publications, 1987. (An essential record of images and information. For early-colonial printed images see also The Antipodes Observed – Prints and Printmakers of Australia 1788 – 1850, by Cedric Flower, Macmillan, 1975, and Sydney Views 1788 – 1888, from the Beat Knoblauch collection, by Susan Hunt and Graeme Davison, Historic Houses Trust, 2007).

Eve Buscombe, Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits – A guide for the Portrait painters of Early Australia with special reference to Colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land to 1850 – with detailed biographies. Catalogues of works and sources of Australian portraiture, Eureka Research, 1978. (Not infallible but essential when researching colonial portraits).

Rex and Thea Rienits, Early Artists of Australia, Angus & Robertson, 1963. (The first publication dedicated to the colonial period and very interesting for that reason).

National Australia Bank calendars. (These have been published annually since the 1950s with 12 illustrations in each calendar and text on social and historical subjects and the artists).

Clifford Craig, The Engravers of Van Diemen’s Land, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961; Old Tasmanian Prints, , Foot & Playsted, 1964; More Old Tasmanian Prints, , Foot & Playsted, 1984; Notes on Tasmania, Foot & Playsted, 1986. (Together they provide detailed information on printmaking as it relates to Tasmania in the nineteenth century).

Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, The Convict Artists, Macmillan, 1977. (Information on Australian colonial art specifically related to the convict artists).

The Artist and the patron – Aspects of Colonial Art in New South Wales, by Patricia R. McDonald and Barry Pearce, Art Gallery of NSW, 1988. (Presents a highly useful range of images and information. See also the earlier AGNSW exhibition catalogue Australian Art in the 1870s by Daniel Thomas, 1976).

Shar Jones, Early Painters of Australia – 1788 – 1880, Bay Books, [1988].

Barbara Chapman, The Colonial Eye – a topographical and artistic record of the life and landmarks of Western Australia 1798 – 1914, AGWA, 1979.

Tim Bonyhady, Australian Colonial Paintings in the Australian National Gallery, ANG [NGA], 1986. (See also Bonyhady’s other publications including Images in Opposition – Australian Landscape Painting 1801 – 1890, OUP, 1985, The Colonial Image, Australian National Gallery/Ellsyd Press, 1987 and The Colonial Earth, The Miegunyah Press, 2000).

Ron Radford, Jane Hylton, Australian Colonial Art 1800 – 1900, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1995.

Alan McCulloch, Artists of the Australian Gold Rush, Lansdowne Press, 1977.

[Noel Hutchison], Early Australian Sculpture From its beginnings up to circa 1920, exhibition catalogue, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1977. (Includes sculptors’ biographies as well as catalogue details).

Australian Impressionism, Terrence Lane, National Gallery of Victoria, 2007. (The most thoroughly researched and extensive publication on Australia to date. But see also, for example, The Golden Age of Australian Painting – Impressionism and the Heidelberg School by Alan McCulloch, Landsowne, 1969; Australian Impressionist Painters by William Splatt and Susan Bruce, Lloyd O’Neil Pty. Ltd, 1981 – republished in 1986 as The Heidelberg School – The Golden Summer of Australian Painting; Golden Summers – Heidelberg and Beyond, by Jane Clark and Bridget Whitelaw, National Gallery of Victoria, 1985, Sunlight and Shadow by Leigh Astbury, Bay Books, 1989 and The Artists’ Camps – ‘Plein air’ Painting in Australia, by Helen Topliss, Hedley Australia, 1992); Impressions – Painting Light & Life, introduction by Louise Doyle, Director, National Portrait Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, 2011.

Well-illustrated Ure Smith books from around the 1940s: Australian Art Annual 1939, edited by Sydney Ure Smith, Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1939 (only one such annual issued); Present Day Art in Australia, edited by Sydney Ure Smith, Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1943, and Present Day Art in Australia, Number 2, edited by Sydney Ure Smith, Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1945. (There is also a new and revised edition of numbers 1 & 2 published in 1949). Art and Design – A Ure Smith Publication, First Number, 1949, announced as being published ‘twice yearly’ but only one copy issued. Ure Sith also published Present Day Art in Australia, edited by Mervyn Horton, in 1969 and Australian Painters of the 70s, also edited by Mervyn Horton, in 1975.

A Memorial Volume to Howard Hinton, Patron of Art, Angus and Robertson, 1951. (Includes a complete listing of over 1000 works collected by Howard Hinton and now in the New England Regional Art Museum. A well-illustrated and useful record of one person’s collection of Australian art, mainly of painting from the first half of the twentieth century).

Ian Burn, National Life & Landscapes – Australian painting 1900-1940, Bay Books [1991]. (Explores ‘traditional’ landscape painting dominant in Australia in the first half of the twentieth century).

Heather Johnson, the Sydney art patronage system 1890 – 1940, Bungoona Technologies, 1997. (Provides extensive information on the ‘fabric’ of the Sydney art world of the period including on galleries, societies and dealers).

Colour in Art, – Revisiting 1919, IDG, COFA, UNSW, 2008.

Making Australian Art 1916-49 – Sydney Ure Smith, Patron and Publisher, by Nancy D. H. Underhill, Oxford University Press, 1991.

Lesley Harding and Sue Cramer, Cubism & Australian Art, Miengunyah Pressm 2009.

Richard Haese, Rebels and Precursors – The Revolutionary Years of Australian Art, Alex Lane, 1981.

Tracy Lock-Weir, Misty Moderns – Australian Tonalists 1915 – 1950, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008.

Geoffrey Dutton, The Innovators – the Sydney alternative in the rise of modern art, literature and ideas, Macmillan, 1986. (RA response to Haese’s Rebels and Precursors which looks at other Australian art outside Melbourne).

Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara, Philip Goad, Modernism & Australia – Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917 – 1967, The Miegunyah Press, 2006. (A compendium of primary sources). And Stephen Ann, Goad Philip, McNamara Andre, Modern Times – the Untold Story of Modernism in Australia, The Miegunyah Press, 2008. (See also for example Australian Modern Painting – Between the wars 1914 – 1939 by Mary Eagle, and Early Sydney Moderns – John Young and the Macquarie Galleries 1916 – 1946, by Jean Campbell).

Harriet Edquist, Pioneers of Modernism – The Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia, Miegunyah Press, 2008.

Andrew Montana, The art movement in Australia : design, taste and society 1875-1900, Miegunyah Press, 2000

Grace Cochrane, The Crafts Movement in Australia: A History, NSW University Press, 1992.

Charles Merewether, Art & Social Commitment – an end to the city of dreams 1931 – 1948, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1984.

Joan Kerr, A Singular Voice, Essays on Australian Art and Architecture, edited by Candice Bruce, Dinah Dysart and Jo Holder,Power Publications, 2009.

Nicholas Draffin, Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920’s & 30’s, Sun Books, 1976.

Roger Butler, A Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Fine Art,1978.

Kirsty Grant, In Relief – Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, NGV, 1997.

The Antipodeans – Challenge and Response in Australian Art 1955 – 1966, NGA, 1999.

Jennifer Phipps, I Had a Dream – Australian Art in the 1960s, NGV, 1997.

Kym Bonython, Modern Australian Paintings, Rigby (There are five volumes altogether, 1950-1960, 1950 – 1975, 1960 – 70, 1970 – 1975, and 1975 – 1980).

John Douglas Pringle, Australian Painting Today, Thames and Hudson, 1963.

R. K. Luck, Modern Australian painting, Sun Books, 1969.

Craig McGregor, et al., Australian Art in the Making, Thomas Nelson, 1979, (An eclectic reportage of art-making in the 1960s with numerous photographs of a selection of artists working).

Ronald Millar, Civilised Magic – An interpretive guide to Australian Paintings, Thames and Hudson, 1975. (The focus is on the 1960s and 1970s).

Christopher Heathcote, A Quiet Revolution – The Rise of Australian Art 1946 -1968, Text, 1995.

Terry Ingram, A Matter of Taste – Investing in Australian Art, Collins, 1976. (A record of the art market in Australia by the Australian Financial Review’s ‘Saleroom’ columnist).

Other books on movements, schools or groups of artists

Andrew Sayers, Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century, Oxford, 1994.

This Wondrous Land – Colonial Art on Paper, edited by Alisa Bunbury, NGV, 2011.

Australian Impressionists in France by Elena Taylor, National Gallery of Victoria exhibition catalogue, NGV, 2013, pb, 178pp, with index.

Christopher Chapman, Surrealism in Australia, NGA, 1993.

Michael Lloyd, Ted Gott and Christopher Chapman, Surrealism – Revolution by Night, NGA, 1993.

Bruce James, Australian Surrealism – The Agapitos/Wilson Collection, The Beagle Press, 2003.

Mary Eagle and Jan Minchin, The George Bell School – Students, Friends, Influences, Deutscher Art Publications/Resolution Press, 1981.

Peter and John Perry, Max Meldrum & Associates – Their Art, Lives and Influences, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 1996.

Angry Penguins and Realist Painting in Melbourne in the 1940s, Hayward Gallery, London, exhibition catalogue, 1988.

Sydney Moderns – Art for a New World, curated by Deborah Edwards and Denise Mimmocchi, Art Gallery of NSW, 2013.

Bernard Smith (Introduction), The Windsor Group 1935-1945, Edwards & Shaw, 1989.

[Jewish Artists in Australia] 1828 – 1978 – An exhibition to mark the Centenary of the Great Synagogue and the 150^th anniversary of Jewish communal life in Australia, introduced by Mervyn Horton, 1978. (Includes photographs and biographies of about 50 artists)

Latvian Artists in Australia, Society of Latvian Artists in Australia, 1979.

Barry Pearce, Swiss Artists in Australia, AGNSW, 1991.

Roger Butler (ed.), The Europeans: Émigré artists in Australia 1930 – 1960, NGA, 1997.

Sandra Warner Australian Naïve Art, Craftsman House, 1994

Jenny Zimmer (ed.), Abstract Art in Australia – A selection from the past thirty years, RMIT Gallery, 1983.

David Pestorius (ed), Geometric Painting in Australia 1941 – 1997, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, 1997.

Therese Kenyon, Under a Hot Tin Roof – art, passion and politics at the Tin Sheds Art Workshop, Power Publications, 1995.

Publications about Australian women artists:

Caroline Jordan, Picturesque Pursuits – Colonial Women Artists & the Amateur Tradition, Melbourne University Press, 2005.

Australian Women Artists, One Hundred Years: 1840 – 1940, catalogue for the Travelling Exhibition, 1975, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, 1975.

Rachel Biven, Some Forgotten… Some Remembered… Women Artists of South Australia, Sydenham Gallery, 1976.

Janine Burke, Australian Women Artists 1840 – 1940, Greenhouse, 1980. (See also her Field of Vision – A Decade of Change: Women’s Art in the Seventies).

A Century of Australian Women Artists 1840s – 1940s, Deutscher Fine Art, 1993.

Jane Hylton, Modern Australian Women – paintings & prints 1925 – 1945, AGSA, 2000.

Shirley Cameron Wilson, From Shadow into Light – South Australia Women Artists Since Colonisation, Delmont, 1988.

Jane Hylton, South Australian Women Artists: 1890s – 1940s, AGSA, 1994;

Caroline Ambrus, Australian Women Artists, First Fleet to 1945: History, Hearsay and Her Say, Irrepressible Press, 1992.

Victoria Hammond and Juliet Peers, Completing the Picture – Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era, Artmoves, 1992.

Jennifer Phipps, Creators & Inventors – Australian Women’s Art in the National Gallery of Victoria, NGV, 1993.

In the Company of Women – 100 Years of Australian Women’s Art from the Cruthers Collection, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 1995.

Helen Topliss, Modernism and Feminism – Australian Women Artists 1900 – 1940, Craftsman House, 1996.

Joan Kerr, Jo Holder (eds). Past Present – The National Women’s Art Anthology, Craftsman House, 1999;

150 Victorian Women Artists produced by Women 150, nd., (biographies of contemporary150 artists)

Sandy Kirby, Sight Lines – Women’s Art and Feminist Perspectives in Australia, Craftsman House, 1992.

Anna Voigt, New Visions – New Perspectives – Voices of Contemporary Australian Women Artists, Craftsman House, 1996.

Into the Light – The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, edited by John Cruthers & Lee Kinsella with contributions by Ted Snell, Juliette Peers and Sally Quin, University of Western Australia Press, nd [2012].

Publications on black and white art

George Blakie, Remember Smith’s Weekly – A Biography of An Uninhibited National Australian Newspaper, Rigby, 1966.

Peter Coleman, Les Tanner, cartoons of Australian history, Thomas Nelson, 1967.

Marguerite Mahood, The Loaded Line – Australian Political Caricature 1788 – 1901, Melbourne University Press, 1973.

50 Years of the Newspaper Cartoon in Australia 1924 – 1973, published by The News, Adelaide, 1973.

Jonathon King, The Other Side of the Coin – A Cartoon History of Australia, Cassell, 1976 (revised 1979).

Patricia Rolfe, The Journalistic Javelin – an illustrated history of The Bulletin, Wildcat Press, 1979.

Vane Lindesay, The Inked-in Image – A Social and Historical Survey of Australian Comic Art, Hitchinson, 1979.

Bonzer – Australian comics 1900s – 1990s edited by Annette Shiell, National Centre for Australian Studies, 1998.

Joan Kerr, Artists &Cartoonists In Black & White: The Most Public Art, ANU, 1999.

Examples of publications on artists in specific regions

Some examples are: Historic Sydney as seen by its Early Artists by Susanna de Vries-Evans; The Artists of Hill End by Gavin Wilson; Artists of Lane Cove by Judy Washington; Landscape Art of the Blue Mountains, by Hugh Spiers; Downs Artists – A Changing Landscape, by Noni Durack and Pamela King [Darling Downs]; Pioneers & Painters – One Hundred Years of Eltham and its Shire by Alan Marshall; Visions of Adelaide 1836 – 1886 by Tracy Lock-Weir; Art and Artists of South Australia by Nancy Benko; Arid Arcadia – Art of the Flinders Ranges, by Alisa Bunbury; South Australia Illustrated – Colonial painting in the Land of Promise, by Jane Hylton, AGSA, 2012; Art in Queensland 1859 – 1959, by Vida Lahey; Historic Brisbane and its Early Artists by Susanna Evans; A Time Remembered, Art in Brisbane 1950 – 1975 by Glenn R, Cooke; Artist in the Tropics – 200 Years of Art in North Queensland by Ross Searle; Escape Artists – modernists in the tropics by Gavin Wilson; Tasmanian Vision – The art of nineteenth century Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, 1988; Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century by Sue Backhouse; Fifty Years of Painting in Tasmania 1925-1975 by Don & Maggie Row; Western Australian Art and Artists 1900 – 1950 by Janda Gooding; A Survey of Western Australian Art from 1696, by Arthur Spartalis, Arthur Spartalis Fine Art, 2008; Cinderella on the Beach – A source book of Western Australia’s Visual Culture, by Ted Snell; The Artists of Rottnest by Ted Snell; Into the Light – The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, UWA, 2012; In a Different Light – Australian Artists Working in Italy by Peter & Susan Ward; Out of the West – Western Australian Art 1830s to 1930s, by Anne Gray, NGA, 2011; Peintres Australiens a Etaples by Jean-Claude Lesage (in French); Scottish Painters in Australia, exhibition catalogue, Castlemaine Art Gallery, essays by Kirsten McKay and Peter Perry. Lists about 80 Australian artists born in Scotland; Painting The Rocks – The Loss of Old Sydney by Paul Ahton, et. Al., Historic Houses Trust, 2010; Fifty Years of Painting in Tasmania 1925-1975 by Don & Maggie Row. Biographical details provided on many of the 80 artists listed, Forty Degrees South, 2010.

Examples of publications on subjects depicted by Australian artists

Examples include Australian Artists, Australian Birds by Barry Pearce; Feather and Brush – Three Centuries of Australian Bird Art by Penny Olsen; Women of Flowers – Botanical Art in Australia from the 1830s to the 1960s by Leoni Norton, NLA, 2009; Visual Ephemera – Theatrical Art in Nineteenth-Century Australia by Anita Callaway; Pastures and pastimes – an exhibition of Australian Racing, Sporting and Animal Pictures of the 19^th century, by Colin Laverty, Victorian Ministry for the Arts; White on Black – The Australian Aborigine Portrayed in Art by Geoffrey Dutton; Lesbian Art – An Encounter with Power by Elizabeth ashburn; Erotica – aspects of the erotic in Australian art by Cedric Flower; Refreshing – Art off the pub wall by Charles Pickett; Images of Religion in Australian Art by Rosemary Crumlin; Through Artists’ Eyes, Australian Suburbs and Their Cities 1919 – 1945 by John Slater. Artists’ Gardens – Flowers and Gardens in Australian Art 1780s – 1980s by Jennifer Phipps; A Fine Line – a history of Australian commercial art by Geoffrey Caban; Poster Art in Australia – The Streets as Art Galleries, Walls sometimes speak by Roger Butler; The Beach by Geoffrey Dutton; Dogs in Australian art, by Steven Miller, Wakefield Press, 2012; The Blake Book – Art, Religion and Spirituality in Australia by Rosemary Crumlin, Macmillan, 2011.

Non-Australian books which may include information on Australian art or artists

Benezit’s Dictionaire Des painters, Sculpteurs, Desssinateurs et Graveurs 8 vols, 1976, Thiemer Becker, 43 volumes reprinted in 1999 and The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, 34 vols,Grove/Macmillan, 1996. (These are the standard European sources but are unlikely to provide original information on Australian artists).

Information may be found in dictionaries such as Bernard Dolman (ed), A Dictionary of Contemporary British Artists, 1929, and Who’s Who in Art, first published in 1927, twenty-second edition in 1986, and in the annual The Year’s Art, published in England from 1880 until the early 1940s, which has lists of artists, craft-workers, dealers, etc

Checklist of British Artists in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1991,and A Checklist of painters c1200 – 1994 represented in the Witt Library, Courtald Institute of Art, London, Mansell/ Fitzroy Dearborn, Second Edition, 1995. (Lists over 60,000 artists who have reproductions of their work held in the Witt Library).

If trying to find information about Australian artists who exhibited in Britain the books of Algernon Graves are essential resources. They include: A Dictionary of Artists who have exhibited works in the Principal London Exhibitions from 1760 to 1893; The Royal Academy of Arts: a Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904, 8 vols., Society of Artists exhibitors, 1760-1791, The Free Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1761-1783 and The British Institution, 1806-1867: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from the Foundation of the Institution #

See also The Royal Society of British Artists 1824 – 1893 and the New English Art Club 1888 – 1917, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1982 reprint. (Like the books of Graves, it lists exhibitors in alphabetical order with titles of works). And The Dictionary of British Artists 1880 – 1940, An Antique Collectors’ Club Research Project listing 41,000 artists, compiled by J. Johnson and A. Greutzner,Antique Collectors Club, 1976. (Perhaps the most useful of the above books because it covers the period when numerous Australian artists worked, and may have exhibited, in Britain. It provides exhibition dates but does not proved titles of works exhibited).