TOM ROBERTS (Exhibition Catalogue)

Adelaide, South Australia: Art Gallery of South Australia, 1996. 224pp., beautiful colour-plate, recto page art illustrations by Tom Roberts, plus small, captioned, b/white halftone plates in a rear section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour-art illustrated ('A Break Away!', detail, 1891, Tom Roberts) matt boards nominally bumped and minimally surface scuffed. (Rear board illustration: 'A Summer Morning Tiff', 1886). 'Tom Roberts' was published on the occasion of the Tom Roberts retrospective, originated by the Art Gallery of South Australia, in conjunction with Art Exhibitions Australia touring to: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 5 October - 17 November 1996; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 30 November 1996 - 27 January 1997; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 12 February - 6 April 1997; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 April - 1 June 1997; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 11 June -27 July 1997. Contents of this superb retrospective include: Prelims., The Father of Landscape Painting? - Ron Radford. The Fortunes of Tom Roberts - Humphrey McQueen. A Painter Making Himself - Mary Eagle. Where The Sun Never Set. Tom Roberts and the British Empire - Virginia Spate. Shearing the rams, 1888-1890. The Golden Fleece, 1894 - Daniel Thomas. A break away!, 1891 - Jane Hylton. Bailed up, 1895/1927 - Barry Pearce. Masculinity and Modernity - Leigh Astbury. Portraiture and Nationalism - Helen Topliss. Reflections on the late work - Barry Pearce. Tom Roberts, Etcher - Roger Butler. Biographical Timeline - collated by Jane Hylton. Catalogue, End Notes, Contributing Authors, Select Bibliography. Book weight approx. 1.39 KG. * Customers outside Australia - This item will incur extra postage charges as it weighs over 1KG. Please email for quote. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. 4to - (approx. 28.5cm x 24cm).