I Buried My Dolls in the Garden: The Life and Works of Elizabeth Blair Barber Tapa dura - 2001

Nedlands: Univ. of Western Australia. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 1999. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 273 pp. .

University of Western Australia Press, 1999. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. AUSTRALIAN ART WEST AUSTRALIANA BIOGRAPHYxii, 273 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm. First Edition. #130523 (Very light edge wear to jacket.)Barber, Elizabeth Blair, 1909-2001.  |  Women painters -- Western Australia -- Biography.  |  Painters -- Western Australia -- Biography.  |  Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Western Australia.Barber, Elizabeth Blair, 1909-2001 Born in Perth in 1909, Elizabeth Barber studied in Perth under Van Raalte, in Melbourne under Lindsay Bernard Hall, and in London. Founder of the Cremorne Art Gallery in Perth, she held her first one-woman show in Perth in 1939. Her work is sometimes signed 'Betty Bunning'. She has also exhibited in London. She died in 2001.Elizabeth Blair, youngest daughter of Major-General and Mrs. G. W. Barber, of South Yarra, and Charles Robert, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bunning, of Cottesloe. . . . Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one… Leer más

Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press First edition - hard cover in dust jacket This book examines Blair Barber's artistic development from one of Perth's early modernists to an exponent of the theories of 'significant form'; her obsession with the South West forests, her spiritual home; the compassion and concern for 'a fair go' for all, led her to establish the successful Cremorne Art Gallery. 300 x 260mm., pp. 273, b/w & col. paltes t/out, Details of Works in Part II, biblio., index. H/c in d.j., Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., sl. rub., few 'light' surface marks. FINE/NEAR FINE ISBN: 1876268417