Outposts Of Empire. Central Australia
1937. Colour lithograph, signed in image lower left, 50.7 x 63.3cm. Linen-backed. Text continues “GPO PRD 185.” Captions in image include “Post Office” and “Savings Bank of Australia.” Held in NLA. More
1937. Colour lithograph, signed in image lower left, 50.7 x 63.3cm. Linen-backed. Text continues “GPO PRD 185.” Captions in image include “Post Office” and “Savings Bank of Australia.” Held in NLA. More
c1937. Colour lithograph, 94.2 x 61.1cm. Repaired missing portions to upper left and lower right, slight creases, discolouration. Linen-backed. Text continues “See the early Tasmanian relics (Beattie collection) and Chinese Joss House. Wholly designed and produced at the Examiner Office, Paterson Street, Launceston.” Held in NGA. A Chinese Joss House..... More
1937. Colour lithograph, 102.7 x 38.7cm. Soiling, scuffs, missing portions, slight foxing. Linen-backed. Text includes “Adolph Zukor presents…[actors] William Boyd, Jimmy Ellison, George Hayes, Stephen Morris, Charlene Wyatt. Directed by Nate Watt. A Harry Sherman production. If it’s a Paramount picture, it’s the best show in town. Paramount Film Service..... More
c1937. Colour process lithograph, signed in image centre right, 100.6 x 63.5cm. Repaired tears to edges, minor scuffing. Linen-backed. Text continues “Particulars at government, shipping and travel offices. Australian National Travel Association, Railway Building, Flinders Street, Melbourne. No. 111. Litho. McLarens, Melbourne.” Original poster design held in NGA. This Modernist..... More
c1937. Colour process lithograph, signed “Douglas Annand” in image lower left, 100.6 x 62.3cm. Minor creases and tears. Text continues “Australian National Travel Association.” Held in NGA, ANMM. “Douglas Annand was at the forefront of modern graphic design in the 1930s and collaborated with the photographer Max Dupain on numerous..... More
1937. Colour process lithograph, 101.2 x 63.3cm. Repaired tears and creases to margins. Linen backed. Text continues “9 Days, 5 Nights. September 23rd to October 2nd, 1937. Buy your show ticket at your local station. Weekly and nine days tickets obtainable. Fast electric trains direct from Flinders St to Showgrounds..... More
1937. Colour screenprint, poster, 49.4 x 36.9cm. Slight discolouration and surface cracking, repaired tears, creases and minor missing portions. Linen-backed. Text includes “Sunshine and shadow in the Kimberleys.” A 1937 newspaper review in the The Argus of Idriess’ book Over The Range, stated “Only a lifetime of observation could make a...... More
1938. Colour lithograph, signed “Love Wardrop” in image lower right, 101.4 x 62.8cm. Minor surface loss, repaired tears, foxing. Linen-backed. Text includes “Full information from SA Govt Tourist Bureau, Box 664G, GPO, Adelaide. C. Wall, Govt Photolithographer, Adelaide.” Held in SLSA. More
1938. Lithograph, 57.7 x 44cm. Missing portion to image upper left, paper loss, stains, foxing, repaired tears. Linen-backed. Text includes “NSW’s most popular Min. TT circuit ‘Whynstanes’ via Smithfield, NSW. Bus meets all trains at Fairfield. King’s Birthday June 13, 1938. No dust, acres of green grass and shade, refreshments..... More
1938. Colour process screen with gilded embossed vignette frames and text, 49.2 x 36.5cm. Slight stains, tears, creases and missing portions to margins. Text includes “A century and a half which have witnessed many marvels, but none stranger than the birth and growth of the Australian nation…C.H. Bertie. Designed and..... More
1938. Colour process lithograph, 99.5 x 63.5cm. Repaired tears to image upper and lower centre, repaired minor creases. Linen-backed. Text continues “Sydney, 26th January to 25th April 1938. Particulars of travel and bookings at shipping offices and travel agencies. Issued by the Australian National Travel Association. Offices: London, Los Angeles..... More
c1938. Colour lithograph, signed in image lower left, 101.6 x 64cm. Repaired minor tears. Linen-backed. Text continues “In comfort, save days. Northfield Studios & J.E. Hackett.” Held in NLA, SLV. Shows a train with a C class locomotive captioned “To Perth”, travelling across the Australian desert. The background map highlights..... More
1938. Colour lithograph, signed in image lower right, 101.5 x 63.4cm. Replaced lower left corner, repaired tears. Linen-backed. Text continues “Feb. 5 [to] Feb. 12, 1938. Empire Games. Australia’s 150th anniversary celebrations, January 26 to April 25, 1938.” Held in NGA. The third Empire Games [now Commonwealth Games] “were timed..... More
c1938. Colour process lithograph, poster, 42.5 x 29.8cm. Repaired minor tears, chips to edges and old folds. Linen-backed. Poster illustrates five books: Madman’s Island by Ion L. Idriess (1938), Maelstrom by E.V. Timms (1938), Promenade by G.B. Lancaster (1938), Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts (1937) and Action at Aquila by Hervey..... More
1939. Colour lithograph, signed in image centre right, 101.1 x 63.5cm. Repaired minor tears and old folds. Linen-backed. Text continues “and also supplies wheat, meat, dairy products, fruit and valuable metals: that aircraft and munitions are now being mass-produced in Australia. These are the sinews of war. Printed for H.M...... More
c1939. Colour lithograph, initialled “W.B.” in image lower right, faded stamp to lower margin, 99.5 x 62.5cm. Slight stains, repaired tears and missing portions, retouching to margins. Linen-backed. Text continues “For sunny carefree holidays, big game fishing, within the Great Barrier Reef. Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, 17 Martin Place, Sydney..... More
c1939. Colour process lithograph, signed in image lower left, 100.8 x 63.6cm. Repaired tears and creases, minor foxing, old folds. Linen-backed. Text continues “Victorian Railways Australia. Poster no. 180. Take a Kodak.”. More
c1939. Colour process lithograph, annotated “E.H. Turnor Studio” in image lower left, 100.6 x 64cm. Slight foxing to edges and margins. Linen-backed. Text continues “Take a Kodak. Victorian Railways Australia [logo]. Poster No. 208.” Held in NLA. This poster, based on a photograph, appears to be the only one produced..... More
c1940s. Oil on canvas, and colour lithograph poster, signed lower right, 96 x 71.5cm (painting), 99.5 x 76.cm (poster). Slight soiling. Original frame. This oil painting was commissioned by Resch’s Brewery to be reproduced as a poster for their pubs. It is extremely rare to have both the original artwork..... More
c1940s. Colour process lithograph, 31.8 x 21.2cm. Crease to left edge, slight foxing. Possibly a WWII poster created to boost morale. More
c1940s. Colour lithograph, signed in image lower right, 98.5 x 73.7cm. Repaired minor tears to edges and crinkles overall. Linen-backed. Text continues “William Brooks & Co., Limited, Litho, Sydney.”. More
1940. Colour lithograph, 73.5 x 50.2cm. Repaired tears and creases, minor soiling. Linen-backed. Text includes “Spirit of AIF to win again. AIF-19.” Held in AWM. More
c1940. Colour lithograph, 75 x 49cm. Repaired missing portions and tears to edges, minor foxing. Linen-backed. Text continues “Diphtheria caused 50,000 cases and 2,000 deaths in New South Wales in the ten years 1929-1938. Those who died were nearly all young children who could have been saved by immunization against..... More
c1940s. Colour process lithograph, 74.1 x 48.4cm. Repaired tears and missing portions to lower edges, minor foxing. Linen-backed. Text continues “Where there’s dirt there’s danger. A clean community means better health. Authorised by Hon. C.A. Kelly MLA, Minister for Health.”. More
1940. Process line block, signed “E.H. Judd” in image lower right, 65 x 97.8cm. Pinholes, old folds, slight stains, strikethrough from image verso. Linen-backed. Text includes “The minimum that every schoolchild should learn. Planned by G.J. Cons. Pictorial Quarterly, 1940. Copyright Evans Bros Ltd.” Image includes a decorative border showing..... More