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AAAN     Australian art annual. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith. Sydney, Ure Smith Pty. Ltd., 1939. [Only one issue? Plates reissued as Australian art today without text, in 1940; also edited by S. Ure Smith with the same plate numbering.]
AAAR    Aspects of Australian art 1900-1940: a touring exhibition from the collection of the Australian National Gallery, Canberra. Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1978.
AACM     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian art -- colonial to modern. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1985. [Exhibition 15-26 April 1985]
AAGA     An Australian gardener's anthology. Adelaide, Rigby, 1982.
AAIL     Australian art illustrated. Sydney, A Royal Art Society Publication, 1947.
AALP     Art Gallery of New South Wales. Australian arcady, landscape paintings from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1983.
AAMA     Australian art masterpieces. South Yarra, Vic., Currey O'Neil, 1984.
AART     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian art, 1820/1920. East Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1980. [Exhibition 3-21 November 1980]
AASC     Art and social commitment: an end to the city of dreams, 1930-1948. [by] Charles Merewether. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1984.
AATC     Art Gallery of New South Wales. The artist and the city. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1983. [Travelling art exhibition]
AAVA     Australia. Commonwealth Art Advisory Board. Antipodean vision: Australian painting: colonial, impressionist, contemporary. Melbourne, Cheshire, 1962.
ACAR     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian colonial art. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1980. [Exhibition 28 April - 3 May 1980]
ACIP     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian colonial and impressionist paintings. East Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1982. [Exhibition 22 March - 9 April 1982]
ACPP     Art Gallery of South Australia. Catalogue of paintings, pastels, and sculpture in the Art Gallery. Adelaide, Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, 1926.
ACIM     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian art: colonial to modern. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1985. [Exhibition 30 October - 15 November 1985]
AEWA     Anderson, Roderick. Early Western Australian art: from the Robert Holmes à Court Collection. Perth, Heytesbury Holdings, Ltd, 1983.
AFOG     The arts festival of the Olympic Games, Melbourne: a guide to the exhibitions with introductory commentaries on the arts in Australia. Melbourne, The Olympic Civic Committee of the Melbourne City Council for the Olympic Organizing Committee, 1956.
AGAA     Anything goes: art in Australia 1970-1980. Edited by Paul Taylor. South Yarra, Vic., Art & Text, 1984.
AGNP     Art Gallery of New South Wales. Picturebook. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1972.
ALIM     Australian landscape in miniature. Text by Roy H. Goddard. Sydney, Legend Press, 1952.
ALOW     The Australian landscape in oils and watercolour. Introduction by Hal Missingham. Sydney, Published by John Brackenreg, OBE for Australian Artists Editions, 1984?
ANIA    Art nouveau in Australia... Exhibition organized through the Australian Gallery Directors Council and sponsored by the Crafts Board of the Australian Council. s.l., sn., 1980.
APAI     The Archibald Prize: an illustrated history, 1921-1981. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982. [Reprinted from Art and Australia 20(2): 213-236, 1982]
APBS    Art Gallery Board of South Australia. Picture books: selected works from the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Adelaide, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1972.
APCA    The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Australian painters, 1964-1966: contemporary Australian painting from the Mertz Collection. Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1967.
APCC    Deutscher Fine Art. Australian paintings colonial/contemporary. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1984. [Exhibition 2-19 April 1984]
APCI     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian paintings: colonial, impressionist, early modern. Carlton, Vic., Deutscher Fine Art, 1983. [Exhibition 8-25 March 1983]
APHS     Australian painters of the Heidelberg School: the Jack Manton Collection. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1979.
APNT     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian painting: nineteenth and twentieth century. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1983. [Exhibition 17 October - 4 November 1983]
ARAA     Art Gallery of New South Wales. Recent Australian art. Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1973. [Exhibition 18 October - 18 November 1973]
ASAT     Art Gallery of South Australia. Australian landscape paintings. Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1970.
AUPA     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian paintings, 1850-1950. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art. 1982. [Exhibition October/November 1982]
AUPC     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian paintings: colonial/impressionist/early modern. Carlton, Vic., Deutscher Fine Art, 1984. [Exhibition 30 October - 16 November 1984]
AWAO     Burke, Janine. Australian women artists: one hundred years: 1840-1940. Parkville, Vic., The Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne University Union, 1975.

BAAA     Benko, Nancy. Art and artists of South Australia. Adelaide, Published under the patronage of the Lidums family, 1969.
BAAE     Bradley, Anthony and Smith, Terry. Australian art and architecture: essays presented to Bernard Smith. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1980.
BAAW     Bardon, Geoff. Aboriginal art of the western desert. Adelaide, Rigby, 1979.
BACP Buscombe, Eve. Australian colonial portraits. Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1979.
BAEA     Buscombe, Eve. Artists in early Australia and their portraits: a guide to the portrait painters of early Australia with special reference to colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land to 1850 with detailed biographies. catalogues of works and sources of Australian portraits. Sydney, Eureka Research, 1978.
BAIC     Birtles, Dora. Australia in colour. Sydney, John Sands, 1946. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]
BAPA     Butler, Roger. Australian prints: a souvenir book of Australian prints in the Australian National Gallery. Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1985.
BAWA     Burke, Janine. Australian women artists, 1840-1940. Collingwood, Vic., Greenhouse Publications, 1980.
BBMA     Battarbee, Rex and Battarbee, Bernice. Modern Aboriginal paintings. Adelaide, Rigby, 1971. [Volume is unpaged: illustrations in no particular order]
BFOC     Brody, Annemarie. The face of the centre: Papunya Tula paintings. 1971-84. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1985.
BGAA     Badham, Herbert. A gal1ery of Australian art. Sydney, Currawong Publishing Co., 1954.
BHP1     Art in BHP House. Melbourne, BHP, n.d. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]
BHP2     Art in BHP House. Melbourne, BHP, n.d.
BIIO     Bonyhady, Tim. Images in opposition: Australian landscape painting 1801-1890. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985.
BISA     Biennale of Sydney. [First] Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1973.
BISB     Biennale of Sydney. [Second] Recent international forms in art: the 1976 Biennale of Sydney. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1976. [illustrations arranged alphabetically by artist]
BISC     Biennale of Sydney. Third -- European dialogue. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1979.
BISD     Biennale of Sydney. [Fourth] Vision in disbelief. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1982.
BISE     Biennale of Sydney. Fifth -- private symbol: social metaphor. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1984. [Illustrations arranged alphabetically by artist]
BISF     Biennale of Sydney. Sixth -- origins, originality & beyond. Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, 1986.
BMAA     Battarbee, Rex. Modern Australian Aboriginal art. 2nd ed. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1958.
BMAP     Bonython, Kym. Modern Australian painting, 1950-1975. Adelaide, Rigby, 1980.
BMAP75     Bonython, Kym. Modern Australian painting, 1975-1980. Adelaide, Rigby, 1980.
BMWL     Butler, Roger. Melbourne: woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920's and 1930's. s.l., Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1981. [Part 1 has illustrations arranged in alphabetical order by artist; part 2 is an essay with unnumbered pages and no particular order to illustrations]
BOAP     Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. Outlines of Australian printmaking: prints of Australia from the last third of the 18th century, until the present time. Ballarat, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1976. [Volume is unpaged: illustrations in no particular order]
BSAA     Badham, Herbert E. A study of Australian art. Sydney, Currawong Pub. Co., 1949.
BSFS     Biven, Rachel. Some forgotten ... some remembered: women artists of South Australia. Norwood, SA., Sydenham Gallery, 1976. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations are arranged in alphabetical order]

CAAA     Craig, Edward R. Australian art auction records. 1975-1978. Ultimo, NSW, Mathews/Hutchinson, 1978.
CAAB     Craig, Edward R. Australian art auction records, 1979-1981. Milson's Point, NSW, The Currawong Press, 1982.
CAAC     Craig, Edward R. Australian art auction records. 1982-1984. Mosman, NSW, Brolga Books, 1985.
CAIP     Deutscher Fine Art. Colonial and impressionist paintings (and a selection of European paintings). East Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1981. [Exhibition 29 October - 13 November 1981]
CAPA     Classic Australian paintings. South Yarra, Vic., Currey O'Neil Ross, 1983.
CAWP     Campbell, Jean. Australian watercolour painters, 1780-1980: including an alphabetical listing of over 1200 painters. Adelaide, Rigby, 1983.
CBHS     Astbury, Leigh City bushmen: the Heidelberg School and the rural mythology. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985.
CBPR     Crumlin, Rosemary. The Blake Prize for religious art -- the first 25 years: a survey. Clayton, Vic., Monash University Gallery, 1984.
CCEP     Chapman, Barbara. The colonial eye: a topographical and artistic record of the life and landscape of Western Australia, 1798-1914. Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1979.
CENT    Art Gallery of South Australia. The centre. Works on paper by Australian artists. Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1984.
CEVD     Craig. Clifford. The engravers of Van Diemen's Land. Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961.
CGEH     Christesen, C. B. The gallery on Eastern Hill: the Victorian Artists' Society centenary. Melbourne, Victorian Artists' Society. 1970.
CGFL     Caban, Geoffrey. A fine line: a history of Australian commercial art. Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1983.
CIPA     Deutscher Fine Art. Colonial and impressionist paintings. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1982. [Exhibition July 1982]
CLIA     Flower, Cedric. Clothes in Australia: a pictorial history, 1788-1980's. Kenthurst, NSW. Kangaroo Press, 1984.
CMOT     Craig, Clifford. More old Tasmanian prints: a companion volume to The Engravers of Van Diemen's Land and Old Tasmanian Prints. Launceston, Tas., Foot & Playsted, 1984.
CPAA     Counterclaims: presenting Australian art, 1938-1941. Christine Dixon and Dinah Dysart. Sydney, S. H. Ervin Gallery, 1986. [A satellite exhibition for the Sixth Biennale of Sydney]
CWAG     Converting the wilderness: the art of gardening in colonial Australia. s.l., s.n., 1979.
CYOH     Catalano, Gary. The years of hope: Australian art and criticism 1959-1968. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1981.

DAAC     Durack, Noni and King, Pamela. Downs artists: a changing landscape. Toowoomba, Qld., Darling Downs Institute Press, 1984.
DAAF     Dixon, Christine and Smith, Terry. Aspects of Australian figurative painting, 1942-1962. Sydney. The Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney in association with The Biennale of Sydney, 1984.
DACA     Dutton, Geoffrey. The Australian collection: Australia's greatest books. North Ryde, NSW, Angus & Robertson, 1985.
DACM     Deutscher Fine Art. Australian art, colonial to modern. Carlton, Vic., Deutscher Fine Art, 1986. [Exhibition 9-25 April 1986]
DALC     Dobson, Rosemary de Brissac. Australia, land of colour. through the eyes of Australian painters. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1962.
DAWL    Draffin, Nicholas. Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920's and 1930's. South Melbourne, Sun Books, 1976.
DCBA    Dolan, David. Charles Bannon, Australian printmaker: an aspect of Australian art, 1968-1982. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1982.
DCEN     Dixon, Robert. The course of empire, neo-classical culture in New South Wales, 1788-1860. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1986.
DSAR     Deutsher, Chris and Butler, Roger. A survey of Australian relief prints, 1900-1950. Armadale, Vic., Deutsher Galleries, 1978.
DSSS     Dutton, Geoffrey. Sun, sea, surf and sand - the myth of the beach. Melbourne, Oxford Unlversity Press, 1985.
DSWL     Deutsher Galleries. A selection of woodcuts & linocuts by Napier Waller and other Melbourne artists. Armadale, Vic., Deutsher Galleries, 1978. [Exhibition 18 August - 3 September 1978]
DVID     Dutton, Geoffrey and Harris, Max. The vital decade. Ten years of Australian art and letters. Melbourne, Sun Books, 1968.
DWOB     Dutton, Geoffrey. White on black: the Australian Aborigine portrayed in art. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1974.

EAFA     Eureka! Artists from Australia. London, Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1982. [Exhibition held in 1982 in London]
EGBS     Eagle, Mary and Minchin, Jan. The George Bell School: students, friends, influence. Melbourne, Deutscher Art Publications, 1981.
EHSA     Evans, Susanna. Historic Sydney as seen by its early artists. Lane Cove, NSW, Doubleday, 1983.
ELAA     Eleven Lithuanian artists in Australia. Edited by Vaclouas Ratas. Sydney, Lithuanian Community in Australia, 1967. (Volume is unpaged; illustrations arranged alphabetically by artist]
ELDA    Elders IXL Collection: masterpieces of Australian painting and French Barbizon School: colonial, contemporary, continental. Adelaide, Elders IXL, 1985.

FAAS     Feldheim, J. Australian art in the sixties: a book of engravings, reproduced from the famous paintings... Melbourne, J. Feldheim, 1915. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]
FAOP     Flower, Cedric. The Antipodes observed: prints and print makers of Australia, 1788-1850. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1975.
FCIA     Fletcher, Marion. Costume in Australia, 1788-1901. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984.
FDAP     Fifteen decades of Australian paintings. Sydney, Published by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and sponsored by the Sydney Morning Herald, 1981.
FEAE     Flower, Cedric. Erotica: aspects of the erotic in Australian art. South Melbourne, Sun, 1977.
FGAI     Fry, Ella. Gallery images. Perth, St. George Books, 1984.
FGIP     The first gallery in Paddington: the artists and their work tell the story of the Rudy Komon Art Gallery. Sydney, Edwards & Shaw, 1981.
FIEL     National Gallery of Victoria. The field. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1969?
FINE     Finemore, Brian. Painting. Melbourne, Longmans, 1961.
FMAP     Findley, Donald J. Modern Australian painting. London, Beaverbrook Newspapers, Ltd., 1963.
FMAW     Fry, Gavin and Gray, Anne. Masterpieces of the Australian War Memorial. Adelaide, Rigby, 1982.
FOHC     Focus on the Hinton Collection. North Sydney, Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, Regional Development Program, n.d.
FSBS     Finney, Colin Michael. To sail beyond the sunset: natural history in Australia. 1699-1829. Adelaide, Rigby, 1984.

GAGA     Germaine, Max. Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, Lansdowne Editions, 1979.
GAGB     Germaine, Max. Artists and galleries of Australia. Brisbane, Boolarong Publications, 1984.
GALP     Great Australian landscape paintings. Selected by the Editors of the Australian Art Library. Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1973.
GAPA     Gleeson, James. Australian painters... Sydney, Lansdowne Press, 1976.
GBSG     Burchell, L. and Pullin, R. The galleries book: a student guide to the public galleries of Victoria. Melbourne, Edresources Pty. Ltd., 1984.
GCPA     Gleeson, James. Colonial painters, 1788-1880. St. Kilda, Vic., Lansdowne, 1971.
GDAA     The great decades of Australian art: selected masterpieces from the J.G.L. Collection. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1984.
GEAL     Gray, Jocelyn. Early Australian landscape painters. Rev. ed., Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1979. [First published as Early Australian paintings. see GEAP]
GEAP     Gray, Jocelyn Early Australian paintings. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1967. [See GEAL]
GIPA     Gleeson, James. Impressionist painters, 1881-1930. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1971.
GMAP     Gleeson, James. Masterpieces of Australian painting. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1969.
GMPA     Gleeson, James. Modern painters, 1931-1970. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1971.
GSHB     Clark, Jane and Whitelaw, Bridget. Golden summers: Heidelberg and beyond. Melbourne, International Cultural Corporation of Australia, Ltd., 1985.
GVTR     Glover, Anne. Victorian treasures from the La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria. Melbourne, Macmillan, 1980.

HAAP     Hall, Rodney. Australians aware: poems and paintings of today. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1975.
HALC     Hill, Ernestine. Australia: land of contrasts. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith. Sydney, John Sands, 1943. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]
HAOA     Hughes, Robert. The art of Australia. Rev. ed. Ringwood, Vic., Penguin, 1970.
HAPF     Hetherington, John. Australian painters: forty profiles. Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1963.
HAPS     Australian painters of the 70's. Edited by Mervyn Horton. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1975.
HFOM     Hill, Marji and McLeod, Neil. From the ochres of Mungo: Aboriginal art today. West Heidelberg, Vic., Dorr/McLeod Publishing, 1984.
HJCA     Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn. The convict artists. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1977.
HLTW     Harris, Max and Forbes, Alison. The land that waited. Melbourne, Lansdowne Press, 1967.
HNGV     Hoff, Ursula and Plant, Margaret. National Gallerv of Victoria: painting, drawing, sculpture. Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire, 1968.
HOAA     Heritage of Australian art: reflections of the history of Australian painters and paintings. Introduced by William Kelly. South Melbourne, Macmillan, published in association with the Australian Information Service, 1984.
HPDA     Horton, Mervyn, ed. Present day art in Australia. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1969.
HRPR     Haese, Richard. Rebels and precursors: the revolutionary years of Australian art. Ringwood, Vic., Allen Lane, 1981.
HSCW     Hawthorn, Bill. Some contemporary Western Australian painters and sculptors. Nedlands, WA., Apollo Press, 1982.
HYAP     The heroic years of Australian painting, 1940-1965. Melbourne, Herald & Weekly Times, Ltd., 1977. [Exhibition catalogue]

IIAA   Illustration index to Australian art. Compiled by Ray Choate. Bundoora, Vic., La Trobe University Library, La Trobe University, 1990.
IMOT     Ingram, Terry. A matter of taste: investing in Australian art. Sydney, Collins, 1976.
INTE     Interiors. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1981.
ITMA     In the making. Edited by Craig McGregor. Melbourne, Thomas Nelson (Australia), 1969.
ITOV     The illustrated treasury of Australian verse. Chosen by Beatrice Davis. Melbourne, Nelson, 1984.

JBAA     Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1969... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1969.
JBAB     Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1970... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1970.
JBAC     Joseph Brown Gallery. Recent acquisitions. Winter 1970... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1970.
JBAD     Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1970.
JBAE     Joseph Brown Gallery. Exhibition of Australian marine painting... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1970.
JBAF     Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1971... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1971.
JBAG     Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1971... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1971.
JBAH     Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1971... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1971.
JBAI     Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1972... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1972.
JBAJ     Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1972... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1972.
JBAK     Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1972... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1972.
JBAL     Joseph Brown Gallery. Contemporary Australian portraits...Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1972.
JBAM     Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1973... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1973.
JBAN     Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1973... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1973.
JBAO     Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1973... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1973.
JBAP     Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1974... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1974.
JBAQ     Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1974... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1974.
JBAR     Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1974... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1974.
JBAS     Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1975... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1975.
JBAT     Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1975... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1975.
JBAU     Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1975... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1975.
JBAV     Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1976... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1976.
JBAW     Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1976... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1976.
JBAX     Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1977... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1977.
JBAY     Joseph Brown Gallery. Winter exhibition 1977... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1977.
JBAZ    Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1977... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1977.
JBBA    Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1978... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1978.
JBBB    Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1978... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1978.
JBBC    Joseph Brown Gallery. Autumn exhibition 1979... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1979.
JBBD   Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1979... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1979.
JBBE    Joseph Brown Gallery. Spring exhibition 1980... Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1980.
JBBF     Joseph Brown Gallery. [Exhibition. 10-24 September 1981] Melbourne, Joseph Brown Gallery, 1981.
JBBG    Joseph Brown Gallery. [Exhibition 1-14 September 1982] South Yarra, Vic., Joseph Brown Gallery, 1982.
JEAA    Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, organized by the Plastic Arts Committee for the Commonwealth Jubilee Exhibition. 1951. [Sydney, Ure Smith, 1951]

KCAP Kempf. Franz. Contemporary Australian printmakers. Melbourne, Lansdowne, 1976.
KRAA Knorr, Hilde and Knorr, Hans. Religious art in Australia. Melbourne, Longmans, 1967.

LALA     Lynn, Elwynn. The Australian landscape and its artists. Sydney, Bay Books, 1977.
LANC     Lloyd, Clem and Sekuless, Peter. Australia's national collections. North Ryde, NSW, Cassell Australia, 1980.
LAND     Landfall: the Captain James Cook bi-centenary exhibition of Australian art. Introduction by Ann Galbally. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1970. [Illustrations arranged by date]
LAPP     Lehmann, Geoffrey. Australian primitive painters. St. Lucia, Qld., University of Queensland Press, 1977.
LAQO     Lahey, Vida. Art in Queensland. 1859-1959. Brisbane, Published for the Queensland National Art Gallery by the Jacaranda Press, 1959.
LASR     The Launceston Art Society in retrospect, 1891-1983. Launceston, Tas., Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, 1983. [Exhibition 18 May - 3 July 1983]
LCDR     Lynn, Elwynn. Contemporary drawing. Melbourne, Longmans, 1963.
LGMP     Luck, R. K. A guide to modern Australian painting. Melbourne, Sun Books, 1969.

MAAA     McCaughey, Patrick. Australian abstract art. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1969.
MAAD     McGrath, Sandra and Olsen, John. The artist and the desert. Sydney, Bay Books, 1981.
MAAG     McCulloch, Alan. Artists of the Australian gold rush. Melbourne, Lansdowne Editions, 1977.
MAIA     Macgeorge, Norman. The arts in Australia. Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire, 1948.
MALA     Morris, Myra. Australian landscape. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith. Sydney, John Sands, 1944. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]
MALC     Mudie, Ian. Australian landscapes in colour. Adelaide, Rigby, 1975.
MANG     Mollison, James and Murray, Laura, eds. Australian National Gallery: an introduction. Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1982.
MANP     McCullough, Bianca. Australian naive painters. Melbourne, Hill of Content, 1977.
MBAA     Melba's Gift book of Australian art and literature. Introduction by Nellie Melba. Melbourne, George Robertson and Co., 1915.
MBST     McQueen, Humphrey. The black swan of trespass: the emergence of modernist painting in Australia to 1944. Sydney, Alternative Publishing Co-operative Ltd., 1979.
MCAA     My country: Australian poetry and short stories, two hundred years. Volume 1. Sydney, Lansdowne Press, 1985.
MCAB     My country: Australian poetry and short stories, two hundred years. Volume 2. Sydney, Lansdowne Press, 1985.
MCMI     Millar, Ronald. Civilized magic: an interpretive guide to Australian paintings. London, Thames & Hudson, 1975.
MCWA     Mason, Murray, ed. Contemporary Western Australian painters and printmakers. Fremantle, WA, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1979.
MDIA     McKenzie, Janet. Drawing in Australia: contemporary images and ideas. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1986.
MEAA     McCulloch, Alan. Encyclopedia of Australian art. Richmond, Vic., Hutchinson, 1968.
MEAB     McCulloch, Alan. Encyclopedia of Australian art. Volume one. Hawthorn, Vic., Hutchinson, 1984.
MEAC     McCulloch, Alan. Encyclopedia of Australian art. Volume two. Hawthorn, Vic., Hutchinson, 1984.
MEMW     McCullough, Bianca, comp. Each man's wilderness: reflections by Australian artists. Adelaide, Rigby, 1980.
MGSL     Mourot, Suzanne and Jones, Paulette. The great south land, treasures of the Mitchell and Dixson Libraries and Dixson Galleries. South Melbourne, Sun Books, 1979.
MMHA     Muir, Marcie. A history of Australian childrens book illustration. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1982.
MOAP     Terry, Martin. Masterpieces of Australian painting. Sydney, Bay Books, 1984.
MORN     McCulloch, Alan. Selected drawings from the collection of the Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre. Mornington, Vic., Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre, 1983.
MSAA     Moore, William. The story of Australian art, from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today. Volume one. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1934. [Facsimile reprint 1980] [Illustration on unnumbered page; reference is to nearest numbered page]
MSAB     Moore, WiIllam. The story of Australian art, from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today. Volume two. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1934. [Facsimile reprint 1980] [illustration on unnumbered page; reference is to nearest numbered page]
MSBM     Mr. Sandman bring me a dream. Andrew Crocker, ed. Alice Springs, NT, Papunya Tula Artists, and Sydney, The Aboriginal Artists Agency, 1981.
MSHP     McGrath, Sandra. Sydney Harbour, paintings from 1794. Milton, Qld., Jacaranda Press, 1979.

NAA1     Norris, Graeme. Australian artists today. Frankston, Vic., Gallery Press, 1974.
NAA2     Norris, Graeme. Australian artists today. 2nd. ed. Seaford, Vic., Graeme Norris, 1979.
NAA3     Norris, Graeme. Australian artists today. 3rd ed. Carlton, Vic., Graeme Norris, 1984.
NATC     Hogan, Tim and Deutsher, Chris. Nineteenth and twentieth century Australian art. Melbourne, Deutsher Fine Art, 1978. [A joint exhibition 28 September - 5 November 1978]
NFFD     National Gallery of Victoria. Freedom from prejudice: an introduction to the Australian collection in the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1977.
NGSA     National Gallery of South Australia. Catalogue: oil and water colour paintings and pastels with biographical, critical. descriptive and historical notes. 5th ed. Adelaide, National Gallery Board, 1946. [Illustrations on unnumbered pages]
NLOB     National Gallery of Victoria. Looking back. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1975. [Travelling art exhibition, 1975]
NNSW     National Art Gallery of New South Wales. 150 years of Australian art. Sydney, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1938. [Volume is unpaged; illustrations in no particular order]
NTCA     Hogan, Tim and Deutsher, Chris. Nineteenth and twentieth century Australian art, 12 July - 18 August 1979: a joint exhibition. Melbourne, Block Gallery, Armadale, Vic., Deutsher Galleries, 1979.

OMTC     Orange Regional Gallery. The Mary Turner Collection. Orange, NSW, Orange Regional Gallery. 1983.
ONTB     On the beach. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982.
OVWA     150 Victorian women artists. By Women 150. Melbourne, Women 150, 1985. [Illustrations arranged alphabetically by artist]

PAPA     Painted Panorama, 1800-1870: paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales. Sydney, The Blaxland Gallery, Grace Brothers, 1985.
PAFT     Pringle, John Douglas. Australian paiting today. London, Thames & Hudson, 1963.
PARA     Australian art review. Edited by Leon Paroissien. Rozelle, NSW, Warner Brothers Publication, 1982.
PARB     Australian art review 2. Edited by Leon Paroissien. Melbourne, Warner Associates with Oxford University Press, 1983.
PCAL     Pearce, Barry. A century of Australian landscape: mood and movement. Sydney, Published by the International Cultural Corporation of Australia Ltd., by the Eagle Press, 1983.
PCAP     Private collection, Australian paintings 1830-1930. Canberra, Department of the Capital Territory in association with the National Trust of Australia, ACT, 1981.
PEGF     Deutscher Fine Art. Painters and engravers from the gold-fields; focusing on Victoria: the 1850s onwards. Carlton, Vic., Deutscher Fine Art, 1983. [Exhibition 21 June - 8 July 1983]
PERA     Australian perspecta 1981: a biennial survey of contemporary Australian art. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1981.
PERB     Australian perspecta 1983: a biennial survey of contemporary Australian art. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1983.
PERC     Australian perspecta '85. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1985.
PHTA     Pearce, Cedric and Pearce, Ian. Hobart town album 1804-1850, by various artists. Hobart, Fullers Bookshop, 1967.
PMAA     Philip Morris Arts Grant. Australian art of the last ten years. Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1982.
POAG     Portrait of a gallery. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1984.
POTG     Pleasure of the gaze: image and appearance in recent Australian art. Exhibition curated by Bruce Adams. Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1985.
PSHB     Prunster, Ursula. The Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932-1982. Sydney, Angus & Robertson in association with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1982.

QAAP     Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston, Tasmania. Australian art in prints, 1970-1980: works from the Oueen Victoria Museum. Launceston, Tasmania, Queen Victoria Museum. 1980.
QAGS     Queensland Art Gallery. Selected works. South Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery, 1982.
QUWO     Queensland works, 1950-1985: a survey of 80 painters. St. Lucia, Qld, University of Queensland, University Art Museum, 1985. [Honours the 75th Anniversary of the University of Queensland]

RAA1     Reid, John. Australian artists at war, compiled from the Australian War Memorial Collection. Vol.I, 1885-1925. South Melbourne, Sun Books, 1977.
RAA2     Reid, John. Australian artists at war, compiled from the Australian War Memorial Collection. Vol.II, 1940-1970. South Melbourne, Sun Bcoks, 1977.
RALP     Reed, John. Australian landscape painting. Melbourne, Longmans, 1965.
REAA     Rienits, Rex and Rienits, Thea. Early artists of Australia. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1963.
RFBE     Rich, Margaret. From the beginnings of European settlement: a collection of Australian watercolours and drawings,1800-1983. Ballarat, Vic., Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1983.
RFYA    Royal Art Society of New South Wales. Fifty years of Australian art: 1879-1929. Sydney, Royal Art Society Press, 1929.
RMAA    Reid, Barrie. Modem Australian art: a Melbourne collection of paintings and drawings. Melbourne, Museum of Modern Art of Australia, 1958?
RNPA    Reed, John. New painting 1952-62. Melbourne, Longmans, 1963.
RRAP     Radford, Ron. Recent Australian painting: a survey 1970-1983. Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1983.

SAAA     Small, Alison. Art and artists of Australia. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1981. [Illustrations on unnumbered pages; reference is to nearest numbered page]
SAEP     Deutscher Fine Art. A selection of Australian and European paintings, 1820-1920. Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1981. [Exhibition 11-29 May 1981]
SAGC     Shepparton Art Gallery. Catalogue of the permanent collection. Shepparton, Vic., Shepparton Art Gallery, 1975.
SAIL     Simpson, Colin. Australian image: landscape by Australian painters with text. Sydney, Australian Art Editions, 1956.
SAIP     Splatt, William and Bruce, Susan. Australian impressionist painters: a pictorial history of the Heidelberg School. Windsor, Vic., Currey O'Neil, 1981.
SAOA     Smith, Sydney Ure. Art of Australia, 1788-1941: an exhibition of Australian art held in the United States of America and the Dominion ot Canada under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation. New York, Published for the Carnegie Corporation by the Museum of Modern Art, 1941.
SAPA     Smith, Bernard. Australian painting, 1788-1970. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1971.
SAPT     The seventies: Australian paintings and tapestries from the collection of National Australia Bank. Melbourne, National Bank of Australasia Ltd., 1982.
SEVA     Smith, Bernard. European vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850: a study in the history of art and ideas. Oxford, the Clarendon Press, 1960.
SEVB     Smith, Bernard. European vision and the South Pacific. 2nd. ed. Sydney, Harper & Row, 1984.
SHEM     S. H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery. The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian paintings. Dinah Dysart. Sydney, The National Trust of Australia (New South Wales), 1983.
SLAA     Society of Latvian Artists in Australia. Latvian artists in Australia. Sydney, Society of Latvian Artists in Australia, 1979.
SLAB     Speirs, Hugh. Landscape art and the Blue Mountains... Chippendale, NSW, Alternative Publishing Co-operative Ltd, 1981.
SOAA     Society of Artists book, 1942. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1942.
SOAB     Society of Artists book, 1943. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1943.
SOAC     Society of Artists book, 1944. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1944.
SOAD     Society of Artists book, 1945-46. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1946?
SOAE     Society of Artists book, 1946-7. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1947?
SOMA     Splatt, William. 100 masterpieces of Australian painting. Adelaide, Rigby, 1973.
SOYA     Sayers, Andrew. 100 years of Australian drawing. Sydney, Bay Books, 1985.
SPDA     Smith, Sydney Ure. Present day art in Australia. Sydney, Ure Smith, 1949. [New and revised edition of vols. 1 and 2 of Present day art in Australia; vol.1 is entitled Australian present day art and vol.2 is entitled Present day art in Australia]
SPRI     Seidel, Brian. Printmaking. Melbourne, Longmans, 1965.
SPTA     Smith, Bernard. Place, taste and tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788. Sydney, Ure Smith Pty. Ltd., 1945.
SPTB     Smith, Bernard. Place, taste and tradition: a study of Australian art since 1788. 2nd ed. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1979.
STAL     Splatt, William and Burton, Barbara. A treasury of Australian landscape painting. Melbourne, Currey O'Neil, 1980. [First published 1977]
STAP     Splatt, William and Burton, Barbara. A treasury of Australian painting. Adelaide, Rigby, 1976.

TAAD     A treasury of Australian art from the David Levine Collection. Adelaide, Rigby, 1981.
TAAR     Thomas, Daniel. Australian art in the 1870s. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1976.
TABP     A treasury of Australian bush painting. Notes on the painters by Susan Bruce. Adelaide, Rigby, 1979.
TAHB     Turnbull, Clive. Art here, Buvelot to Nolan. Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1947.
TAPA     Deutscher Fine Art. 30 Australian paintings. East Melbourne, Deutscher Fine Art, 1980. (Exhibition 15 September - 30 October 1980]
TASM     Tasmania visited. Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1981. [Exhibition 3 November 1981 - 17 January 1982]
TBAC     Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery. Annual collectors exhibition. October/November 1985. Sydney, Trevor Bussell Fine Art Gallery, 1985.
TOAA     Thomas, Daniel. Outlines of Australian art: the Joseph Brown Collection. Expanded edition. South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1980.
TTAC     Topliss, Helen. The artist's camps: plein air painting in Melbourne, 1885-1898. Clayton. Vic., Monash University Gallery, 1984. TTYA    Thomas, Laurie. 200 years of Australian painting. Sydney, Bay Books, 1977.

UMEG University of Melbourne. Ewing and George Paton Galleries. The Ewing Collection. s.l., s.n., 1981.

VAAP    Victoria & Albert Museum. Australian prints; exhibition July-November. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1972.
VALH    Art and letters; Hassell's Australian miscellany, 1921-2. Edited by Edward A. Vidler. Adelaide and Melbourne. The Hassell Press, 1922?
VAVS    Arts Victoria 75. The visual arts in Victoria; a survey. Melbourne, Victorian Ministry for the Arts, 1975. (Also appeared as a special issue of Art and Australia, Jan-Mar 1975]
VIVI    Victorian vision: 1834 onwards; images and records from the National Gallery of Victoria and the State Library of Victoria. By Christine Downer and Jennifer Phipps. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1985.
VPOX    Vox Pop, into the eighties. Edited by Robert Lindsay. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1983.
VVCA    Victorian views by contemporary artists. Co-curated by Joe Pascoe and Svetlana Karovich. Benalla, Vic., Benalla Art Gallery, 1985.

WAAR    Western Australian artists, 1920-1950. Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1980. [Exhibition 12 September - 19 October 1980]
WADT     Whitelaw, Bridget. Australian drawings of the thirties and forties in the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1980.
WALD     Whitelaw, Bridget. Australian landscape drawing, 1830-1880, in the National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1976.
WCAD     Western Australian Art Gallery. Contemporary Australian drawing. Perth, Western Australian Art Gallery, 1978.
WDAP     Wood, Lilian, ed. Directory of Australian printmakers, 1976. Melbourne, Print Council of Australia, 1976.
WDAP82     Wood, Lilian, ed. Directory of Australian printmakers, 1982. Melbourne, Print Council of Australia, 1982.
WOAC     Works of art in Canberra. Volume 1. Canberra, National Capital Development Commission, 1980.
WOAD     Works of art in Canberra. Volume 2. Canberra, National Capital Development Commission. 1986.

ZSGA Zimmer, Jenny. Stained glass in Australia. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984.