Reference: Recent Australian Painting, Whitechapel Gallery. Foreword by Kenneth Clark, preface by Bryan Robertson, introduction by Robert Hughes. An important catalogue, this exhibition was the first major show of contemporary Australian painting. The artists represented in the exhibition were Balson, Blackman, Arthur and David Boyd, Brack, Coburn, Daws, Dickerson, Dobell, Drysdale, Fairweather, French, Friend, Gleeson, Nolan, Olsen, Perceval, Pugh, Sibley, Smart, Tucker, Whiteley, Williams and others. Each artist in addition to the illustrated catalogue has a portrait photograph and short biography. ‘An iconic catalogue of modern Australian art.’
Publishing details: London : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1961. Quarto, laminated illustrated wrappers, approx. 60pp., 23 black and white plates plus numerous portrait photographs.
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