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Reading list of Australian War Memorial Art Collection
GENERAL
| Author | Title and publication details |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | The Hall of Memory (Australian War Memorial, 1975) |
| Ronald Monson | A selection of Australian War Memorial paintings with the story
of the artists (Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1971) |
| Laura Back | 'The bronzed Aussie', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 27, (October 1995), 26 |
| Ian Burn | 'The war to end all wars', National Life & Landscapes: Australian painting 1900-1940 (Bay Books, Sydney, 1990), 61-81 |
| Elizabeth Burness | 'The Menin Gate lions', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 13, (October 1988), 48-49 |
| Roger Butler | The streets as art galleries - walls sometimes speak: Poster
art in Australia (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1993) |
| Gillian Freeman | '"Go and paint the bloody war", The war art of Ivor Hele', Antipodes Antiques & Fine Art, (Antipodes 1, No 2, 1997), 55-62 |
| Gavin Fry & Anne Gray | Masterpieces of the Australian War Memorial (Rigby, Adelaide, 1982) |
| Gavin Fry | 'Blood, sweat and tears: the war art of Ivor Hele and George Gittoes' Australian Artist Magazine, (No 162, December 1997) 60-66 |
| Gavin Fry | 'The Christmas books', 1996 Army Annual (Directorate of Army Public Affairs, Canberra, 1997) iv |
| Anne Gray | 'The Graphic Art Collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra', Imprint, (Vol 21, No 1-2, April 1986), 7-9 |
| Anne Gray | Art and Artifice: George Lambert 1873-1930 (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1996) |
| Anne Gray | George Lambert (1873-1930): Catalogue raisonné: paintings
and sculpture, drawings in public collections (Bonamy Press, Perth, 1996) |
| Anna Gray | The Australian War Memorial's International Print Collection (Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1992) |
| Anne Gray | 'Shape and significance of the art collection', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 19, (November 1991), 51-52 |
| Anna Gray | 'War Art', The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1995) 628-637 |
| Anna Gray |
'War Artists', The Oxford Companion to Australian Military
History |
|
Marion Halligan |
'Hidden treasures of the Australian War Memorial', Fremantle Arts Review, (March 1990), 3-6 |
| Priscilla Henderson |
'The Shellal mosaic: A reappraisal', |
|
Clem Lloyd & Peter Sekuless |
'The Australian War Memorial' Australia's national collections (Cassell Australia, Sydney, 1980) 65-86 |
| Jean McAuslan | 'Designing the Hall of Memory mosaic', Australian Antique Collector, (January-June 1990) 74-76 |
| Michael McKernan | Here is their spirit: a history of the Australian War Memorial
1917-1990 (University of Queensland Press, 1991) |
| Michael McKernan | 'Charles Bean: War correspondent and historian', Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery (Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, Sydney, 1992) 94 |
| William Moore | 'War' The Story of Australian Art; from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today [Vol 2] (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1934) 45-70 |
| John Reid | Australian Artists at War (Sun, Melbourne, 1977), 2 volumes |
| Elena Rensch | 'Aborigines in war: Depictions of Aborigines in the art collection
of the Australian War Memorial', Australian Aboriginal Studies, (No 2, 1990) |
| Elena Rensch | 'Sir Edward Dunlop AC CMG OBE: Surgeon and community leader', Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery (Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, Sydney, 1992) 96 |
| Peter Stanley | What did you do in the war Daddy? A visual history of propaganda
posters (Oxford, Melbourne, 1983) |
| A.D. Trendall | The Shellal Mosaic (Australian War Memorial, 1973) |
| Lola Wilkins | 'Field Marshall Sir Thomas Blamey GBE KCG DSO: Soldier', Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery (Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, Sydney, 1992) 28 |
| Lola Wilkins | 'Through Women's Eyes: Australian women artists and war 1914-1994', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 25, (October 1994), 45-48 |
| Lola Wilkins | 'Lieutenant General Sir John Monash GCMG KCB: Soldier, engineer and administrator', Uncommon Australians: Towards an Australian Portrait Gallery (Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, Sydney, 1992) 20 |
COLONIAL PERIOD
| Author | Title and publication details |
|---|---|
| Leigh Astbury | 'Masculinity and Modernity' (mentions:
"A" Battery Field Artillery, New South Wales 1896 and Sergeant R.D. Fraser, Mounted Rifles 1896) in Tom Roberts (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1996) 140-143 |
| Anne Gray | '"Long-Limbed, Lean, Reserved": George Lambert, A Sergeant of Light Horse in Palestine, 1920' Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art, 1788-1988 (The Art Gallery of South Australia, 1988) 168-169 |
| Anne Gray | 'Colonial visions of war', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 6, (April 1985), 31-36 |
| Anne Gray | 'H.M.L. Atcherley, The Action at Te Ranga 1864', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 3, (April 1983), 43 |
| Ena John | 'Livingston Hopkins's Roll-call', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 6, (April 1985), 59-60 |
| Lola Wilkins | 'Pre-Federation naval pictures', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 7, (October 1985), 46-47 |
FIRST WORLD WAR
| Author | Title and publication details |
|---|---|
| Nola Anderson | 'Art and mind: the Memorial's poster collection', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 12, (April 1988), 51-52 |
| Penleigh Boyd | Salvage; Pictures and Impressions of the Western
Front… (Australian War Memorial Facsimile Editions, Canberra, 1983) |
| Jean Campbell | 'Beauty... Past Change: Watercolours by Australian War
Artists 1914-18', Hemisphere, (Vol 23, No 2, 1979), 66-71 |
| Jean Campbell | 'Australian Painters and the First World War - The Oil
Paintings', Hemisphere, (Vol 27, No 4, 1979), 245-251 |
| Jean Campbell | 'The artists of the first world war', Australian watercolour painters 1780-1980 (Rigby Publishers,1983) 106-111 |
| Glenn R Cooke | 'Discovering memorial art', Arts National, (Vol 2, No 6, 1985), 24-29 |
|
Simon Forrester |
'First World War recruiting posters', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 16, (April 1990), 80-81 |
Simon Forrester |
'Annie Campbell', Heritage: The National Women's
Art Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995) 245-246 |
Gavin Fry |
'Australian official war art and artists', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 1, (October 1982), 24-31 |
| Peter Fullerton | Norman Lindsay war cartoons 1914-1918 (Melbourne University Press, 1983) |
| Anne Gray | A. Henry Fullwood: War Paintings (Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1983) |
| Anne Gray | Streeton, France 1918 (Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1984) |
| Anne Gray |
'Australian women artists and the Great War', |
|
Anne Gray |
'Australian artists of World War I', Quadrant, (Vol xxvii, No 1-2, 1983), 19-23 |
| Anne Gray | 'Will Longstaff's sketch-book', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 3, (October 1983), 52-53 |
| Anne Gray | 'Moore-Jones' Gallipoli', Australian Connoisseur and Collector, (No 4, 1983), 40-43 |
| Anne Gray | 'Cartoons: the little incongruities of war', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 5, (October 1984), 46-47 |
| Anne Gray | 'Streeton by Lambert', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 4, (April 1984), 42-43 |
| Anne Gray | 'Will Longstaff's Menin Gate at midnight' Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 12, (April 1988), 47-49 |
| Anne Gray | 'The artist is hereby appointed', The Australian Antique Collector, (July-December 1989), 56-59 |
| Anne Gray | 'Four printmakers at war: Dix, Nash, Dyson, Laboureur', Art and Australia, (Vol 28, No 4, Winter 1991), 482-487 |
| Anne Gray | 'Art and war', Art and Australia, (Vol 28, No 4, Winter 1991), 473-475 |
| Anna Gray | 'Landscapes of the first world war', Australian Antique Collector, (July- December 1992), 73-76 |
| Anna Gray | George Lambert Drawings (Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 1993) |
| Anna Gray | 'Art and photography', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 26, (October 1994), 45-46 |
| Anne Gray | 'Iso Rae', Heritage: The National Women's Art Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 247-248 |
| Anne Gray | 'Evelyn Chapman', Heritage: The National Women's
Art Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 249-250 |
| Patrick Hutchings | Peter Corlett Sculptures (Deakin University Press, Geelong, 1992) [Chapter 7 relates to Simpson and his donkey] |
| Samantha Littley | 'Mother, lovers, workers, wives', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 26, (April 1995), 55-56 |
| Jean McAuslan | 'Wallace Anderson's Evacuation', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 16, (April 1990), 73 |
| Jean McAuslan | 'Poster art 1914-20 in Britain, France and Germany', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 22, (April 1993), 44-46 |
| Jean McAuslan | 'Gladys Blaiberg', Heritage: The National Women's
Art Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 248-249 |
| Ross McMullin | Will Dyson: Cartoonist, etcher and Australia's finest
war artist (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1984) |
| Julie Russell | 'Ellis Silas - artist at Gallipoli', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 9, (October 1986), 54-55 |
| Nancy Tingey | 'Landscape paintings and drawings of Gallipoli', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 16, (April 1990), 71-72 |
| Nancy Tingey | 'Graphic art by Kathe Kollwitz', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 17, (October 1990), 51-52 |
| J L Treloar (ed.) | Australian Chivalry: reproductions in colour and duo-tone of official war paintings (Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1933) |
SECOND WORLD WAR
| Author | Title and publication details |
|---|---|
| Nola Anderson | 'Art and mind: the Memorial's poster collection', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 12, (April 1988), 51-52 |
| Lisa Brereton | 'Christmas book illustrations', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 10, (April 1987), 54 |
| Jean Campbell | 'Beauty ... Past Change: Australian water-colourists of the second world war', Hemisphere, (Vol 23, No 5, 1979), 282-287 |
|
Jean Campbell |
'Oil paintings from the Australian War Memorial', Hemisphere, (Vol 28, No 5, 1984), 304-310 |
| Jean Campbell | 'The second world war', Australian watercolour painters 1780-1980 (Rigby Publishers,1983) 159-168 |
| Glenn R Cooke | 'Discovering memorial art', Arts National, (Vol 2, No 6, 1985), 24-29 |
| Renée Free | '"The crew escaped amid the flames"
- Frank Hinder, Bomber crash, 1943-49', Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art, 1788-1988 (The Art Gallery of South Australia, 1988) 208-209 |
| Simon Forrester | 'Army daze: soldiers' cartoons from the second world
war', & Elena Rensch Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 21, (October 1992), 54-57 |
| Gillian Freeman | 'A woman before her time: Nora Heysen's WAAAF Cook
and Corporal Joan Whipp', State of the Arts, (April to July 1998) |
| Gavin Fry & Ivor Hele | The Soldiers' Artist Jean McAuslan (Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1984) |
| Gavin Fry & Donald Friend | Australian War Artist 1945 Colleen Fry (John Currey O'Neil, Melbourne, 1982) |
| Gavin Fry | 'Australian official war art and artists', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 1, (October 1982), 24-31 |
| Gavin Fry | 'Sali Herman, 0630', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 2, (April 1983), 43-44 |
| Gavin Fry | Works by Albert Tucker and Yasushi Santa', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 3, (October 1983), 52 |
| Gavin Fry | 'Edwards, VC, over Bremen Harbour, 4 July 1941 by Ray
Honisett', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 4, (April 1984), 41 |
| Gavin Fry | C. Dudley Wood (The Beagle Press, Sydney, 1996) |
| Anne Gray | 'Sali Herman's war paintings', Art and Australia, (Vol 24, No 4, 1987), 528-531 |
| Magdalene Keaney | 'Images of displacement: Art from the internment camps', The Europeans: Emigré artists in Australia 1930-1960 (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1997) 85-101 |
| Garry Kinnane | 'The war art of Colin Colahan', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 28, (April 1996) available at: http://www.adfa.oz.au/~awm/journal/j28/j28/-kinn.htm |
| Lou Klepac | Nora Heysen (The Beagle Press, Sydney, 1989) |
| Kenneth Jack | Kenneth Jack: World war 11 paintings and drawings (Boolarong Press, Brisbane, 1990) |
| Anne Langridge | 'Roberta Donald', Heritage: The National Women's
Art Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 259-260 |
| Samantha Littley | 'Elsa Russell', Heritage: The National Women's Art
Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 260-261 |
| Jean McAuslan | 'Eric Thake, 1904-82', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 2, (April 1983), 17-18 |
| Jean McAuslan | 'Lyndon Dadswell's Greece', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 5, (October 1984), 44-45 |
| Peter Pinson | Eric Thake: War Artist (The Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1991), 2 volumes |
| Peter Pinson | 'Arthur Murch as official war artist', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 26, (April 1995), 45-48 |
| Elena Rensch | 'Murray Griffin's Documents of War', Art and Australia, (Vol 28, No 4, Winter 1991), 488-492 |
| Elena Rensch | 'Drawings by women prisoners of war', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 18, (April 1991), 60-61 |
| Elena Rensch | 'Dore Hawthorne', Heritage: The National Women's
Art Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 266 |
| Elena Rensch | 'Grace Taylor', Heritage: The National Women's Art
Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 267 |
| Elena Rensch | 'Pat Gunther', Heritage: The National Women's Art
Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 258-259 |
| Cathy Speck | 'Thora Ungar', Heritage: The National Women's Art
Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 255 |
| Andrew Sayers | 'Eric Thake and the face of defeat', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 21, (October 1992), 51-53 |
| Lola Wilkins | 'Women artists who went to war', Australian Collector's Quarterly, (May, June, July 1990) |
| Lola Wilkins | 'Stella Bowen', Art and Australia, (Vol 28, No 4, Winter 1991), 493-497 |
| Lola Wilkins | Ivor Hele: the heroic figure (Australian War Memorial, 1997) |
| Lola Wikins | 'From desert glare to jungle gloom: Ivor Hele as a war
artist', Wartime, 1, (November 1997), 44-47 |
| Lola Wilkins | 'Sheila Hawkins', Heritage: The National Women's
Art Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 253-254 |
| Lola Wilkins | 'Stella Bowen', Heritage: The National Women's Art
Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 263-264 |
| Lola Wilkins | 'Sybil Craig', Heritage: The National Women's Art
Book (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 264-265 |
| Lola Wilkins & 'Nora Heysen' | Heritage: The National Women's Art Book Joan Kerr (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1995), 262-263 |
| Carolyne Palmer | 'The history behind the art: events in New Guinea depicted
in Ivor Hele's art', Wartime, 1, (November 1997), 48-51 |
VIETNAM WAR
| Author | Title and publication details |
|---|---|
| Simon Forrester | 'Signs of the Moratorium' in 'Vietnam sighted', Art Association of Australia, 1991 |
| Anne Gray | 'Artist's visions of Vietnam' in Peter Pierce, Jeffrey Grey and Jeff Doyle (eds), Vietnam Days - Australia and the impact of Vietnam (Penguin, Melb., 1991) |
| Ann-Mari Jordens | 'A dream turns sour: official war artists in Vietnam', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 11, (October 1987), 17-24 |
| Tina Mattei | 'Olive Bishop's Wash and war, general', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 26, (April 1995), 57-58 |
| Nancy Tingey | 'The Art Collection and the Vietnam War', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 21, (October 1992), 41-42 |
GULF WAR
| Author | Title and publication details |
|---|---|
| Anne Gray | 'Gulf war art', Art and Australia, (Vol 31, No 2, Summer 1993), 208-215 |
| Nancy Tingy & Elena Rensch | 'Works of art acquired on the Gulf war', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 20, (April 1992), 46-48 |
CONTEMPORY
| Author | Title and publication details |
|---|---|
| Simon Forrester | 'Nuclear Free and Independent: Posters by Pam Debenham', Art and Australia, (Vol 28, No 4, Winter 1991), 500-501 |
| Gavin Fry | Nolan's Gallipoli (Rigby, Adelaide, 1983) |
| Deborah Hart | The realism of peace: George Gittoes (Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1995) |
| Elena Taylor & Simon Forrester | '"Death's artefact…"
Recent art and war' Artlink, (Vol 14, No 4, 1994) |
| Nancy Tingey | 'Contemporary Visions of War', Art and Australia, (Vol 28, No 4, Winter 1991), 504-508 |
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
o Exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Australian official
war artists
(Australian War Memorial, Canberra 1943)
o Exhibition of paintings and drawings of New Guinea by Captain Ivor
Hele official war artist
(Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1945)
o Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by V. Murray Griffin (1946-47)
o Profile: A survey exhibition of the Art Collection (Australian War Memorial, 1977)
o Nolan's Gallipoli (an exhibition of Sidney Nolan's Gallipoli
series at the Australian War Memorial
Canberra from 13 April 1978)
o The Trumpet Calls: Posters from Two World Wars (Australian War Memorial loan exhibition 1980-82)
o Anne Gray, Lambert War Sketches (An Australian War Memorial loan exhibition, 1978)
o Sali Herman: Official War Artist (Australian War Memorial, Canberra, )
o Anne Gray, Streeton, France 1918 (catalogue for touring exhibition 1984)
o Anne Gray et al, Send Me More Paint! (Note: an education kit
was also produced for this exhibition)
(1988)
o Anne Gray, Western Front: Printmakers' Views (1989)
o Art in Action: The making of commemorative art 1918-1988 (1989)
o Anne Gray, In Search of Heroes: Artists and ANZAC 1915-1990 (1990)
o Anne Gray, Most Treasured Records: Art exhibited at the opening of the Memorial in 1941 (1991)
o Meredith Hinchcliffe, 'Crafts of war exhibition', Crafts Council of the ACT, 1985
o Jean McAuslan & Simon Forrester, Poster Art 1914-20: In Britain, France and Germany (1992)
o Simon Forrester, Impressions: Australians in Vietnam (catalogue for touring exhibition 1997)
o Elena Taylor, Up Front: faces of Australia at War (catalogue for a touring exhibition 1998)
o Lola Wilkins, Ivor Hele: the heroic figure (catalogue for touring exhibition 1997)
OFF-PRINTS
o Anne Gray, 'Will Longstaff's Menin Gate at midnight',
Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 12, (April 1988)
o Images of the Great War (contains a short piece on Gladys Blaiberg's
paper sculptures and A. Henry
Fullwood's war paintings)
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