Category: Journal

• Independent Lina Bryans

  

  Independent painter Lina Bryans was known for her portraits.

  2012-03-26

• Eveline Syme

  

  Modernist Eveline Syme also attended the George Bell school in Toorak, Melbourne.

  2012-03-23

• 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.

  2012-03-21

• Frances Burke

  

  Many students passed through George Bell’s art school.

  2012-03-19

• Dancing and Painting

  

  George Johnston was very positive about the state of the arts in Australia in 1966.

  2012-03-16

• Football and Lifesaving

  

  There is a big section in George Johnston and Robert Goodman’s The Australians on sport. The Sporting Life.

  2012-03-15

• Hyde Park and Opera

  

  Another chapter in The Australians by Robert Goodman and George Johnston is The Cities.

  2012-03-14

• 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.

  2012-03-13

• Robert Goodman and George Johnston

  

  In 1962 an American photographer, Robert Goodman, conceived of an idea to produce a picture book on Australia.

  2012-03-12

• Warm Australia

  

  This ad still works 40 years later.

  2012-03-09

• Far Away Australia

  

  How about visiting the Ross River cattle station? A billy tea and damper picnic near the historic homestead.

  2012-03-08

• Australian Sheilas

  

  Ok. Well I like parrots.

  2012-03-07

• Australian Ruins

  

  Another Helvetica driven poster for the Australian Tourist Commission.

  2012-03-06

• Australian Type

  

  I’ve always liked typography.

  2012-03-05

• Graphic Eric Thake

  

  So there is Eric Thake working away at Paton’s Advertising Agency in Melbourne. For 30 years.

  2012-03-02

• Bookish Eric Thake

  

  Most of the information I’ve collected about Eric Thake has come from the State Library of Victoria website.

  2012-03-01

• Political Eric Thake

  A couple more images from the National Gallery of Australia book Printed images by Australian artists 1885-1955.

  2012-02-29

• Birdman Eric Thake

  

  The one thing you notice when you start digging Eric Thake is his love of owls.

  2012-02-28

• Early Eric Thake

  

  The young sketcher, Eric Thake, was out and about Melbourne in the early 1920s.

  2012-02-27

• 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…

  2012-02-24