Australian painting education kit:
Further Reading
References and texts for further reading are provided to develop students' knowledge
and appreciation of the individual artist and art movements/schools.
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General Information
Bonyhady, Tim, Images in Opposition: Australian landscape painting 1801-1890,
Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985.
Clark, Jane & Whitelaw, Bridget, Golden Summers: Heidelberg and Beyond, ICCA, Sydney, 1985.
Lindsay, Robert, Field to Figuration: Australian art 1960-1986, works from the NGV,
NGV, Melbourne, 1986.
Specific Artists
William Barak
Sayers, Andrew, Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century,
Oxford University Press, Australia, 1994.
Louis Buvelot
Grey, Jocelyn, 'Abram Louis Buvelot and the art of the French painters of Barbizon',
Art and Australia, vol. 16, no. 2, December 1978, pp 152 ff.
Janet Dawson
Lindsay, Robert (ed.), The Seventies: Australian paintings and tapestries, from the
collection of National Australia Bank, NAB, Melbourne, 1982, p. 42.
'Janet Dawson - Painter: Interviewed by Lesley Dumbrell', Lip, 1980, pp. 62 ff.
Plant, Margaret, 'Janet Dawson', Art and Australia, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter 1980, pp 337 ff.
Lindsay, Robert, Survey 9: Janet Dawson, NGV, Melbourne, 1979.
Russell Drysdale
Klepac, Lou, The Life and Works of Russell Drysdale, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983.
Boddington, Jennie, Drysdale Photographer, NGV, Melbourne, 1987.
Catalano, Gary, An Intimate Australian: The landscape and recent Australian art,
Hale & Ironmonger, Sydney, 1985.
Eugene von Guerard
Bruce, Candice, Eugene von Guerard, AGDC, Sydney, 1980.
Catalano, Gary, An Intimate Australian: The landscape and recent Australian art,
Hale & Ironmonger, Sydney, 1985.
Hans Heysen
North, Ian, Heysen, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1979.
McCaughey, Patrick, Fred Williams: The Pilbara Series 1979-1981,
CRA, Melbourne, 1983.
Dale Hickey
Lindsay, Robert (ed.), The Seventies: Australian paintings and tapestries, from the
collection of National Australia Bank, NAB, Melbourne, 1982, p. 56 & 122.
Catalano, Gary, 'On Dale Hickey', Art and Australia, vol. 17, no. 3, March 1980, pp. 252 ff.
Rooney, Robert, 'Nomadic Hickey's new bush look', the Age, 24 September 1980, p. 10.
Frederick McCubbin
Galbally, Ann, Frederick McCubbin, Hutchinson, Melbourne, 1981.
Thomas, David, 'Frederick McCubbin', Art and Australia, vol. 7, no. 1, June 1969, pp. 66 ff.
Astbury, Leigh, City Bushmen: The Heidelberg School and the rural mythology,
Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, ch. 7.
Sidney Nolan
Clark, Jane, Nolan: Landscape and Legends, ICCA, Sydney, 1987.
Haese, Richard, 'The Wimmera paintings of Sidney Nolan', in
Sidney Nolan: The City and the Plain, NGV, Melbourne, 1983.
Tom Roberts
Spate, Virginia, Tom Roberts, rev. edn. Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1978.
Topliss, Helen, Tom Roberts 1856-1931, A Catalogue Raisonnée,
2 vols, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985.
Topliss, Helen, The Artists' Camps: plein air painting in Melbourne 1885-1898,
Monash University Gallery, Clayton, Vic., 1984.
Arthur Streeton
Galbally, Ann, Arthur Streeton, Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1979.
Specific reading on Near Heidelberg
Galbally, Ann, 'Arthur Streeton untutored and bold with colours', the Age, 25 June 1974.
Fred Williams
McCaughey, Patrick, Fred Williams, Bay Books, Sydney, 1980.
Mollison, James, Fred Williams: a souvenir book of the artist's work in the
Australian National Gallery, ANG, Canberra, 1987.
Lindsay, Robert & Zdanowicz, Irena, Fred Williams: Works in the National Gallery of Victoria,
NGV, Melbourne, 1980.
