Category: Journal
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Mary Cecil Allen
Melbourne born Mary Cecil Allen was a very well known artist and educator from the 1930s who after her death was another one of those ladies sidelined by art historians.
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Dancing and Painting
George Johnston was very positive about the state of the arts in Australia in 1966.
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Football and Lifesaving
There is a big section in George Johnston and Robert Goodman’s The Australians on sport. The Sporting Life.
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Hyde Park and Opera
Another chapter in The Australians by Robert Goodman and George Johnston is The Cities.
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Fitzroy River and Judith Wright
In The Australians, published by Rigby Limited in 1966, Robert Goodman and George Johnston’s first chapter concerns The Land.
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Robert Goodman and George Johnston
In 1962 an American photographer, Robert Goodman, conceived of an idea to produce a picture book on Australia.
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Far Away Australia
How about visiting the Ross River cattle station? A billy tea and damper picnic near the historic homestead.
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Graphic Eric Thake
So there is Eric Thake working away at Paton’s Advertising Agency in Melbourne. For 30 years.
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Bookish Eric Thake
Most of the information I’ve collected about Eric Thake has come from the State Library of Victoria website.
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Political Eric Thake
A couple more images from the National Gallery of Australia book Printed images by Australian artists 1885-1955.
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Thinking Bridget Riley
The 80-year-old Bridget Riley has been on my mind a lot lately. So I pulled out my collection of Riley books. Left to right, there is Reef from 1977; Paean from 1973; and Ecclesia from 1985. | Collection of Bridget Riley Books, 2012 | After a bumpy ride to fame in the 1960s following an exhibition at the Museum of…