Ken McGregor

John Olsen

Jenny Zimmer

John Olsen's prolific work has illuminated Australia's landscape for decades. Here, its features are seen anew as he approaches them with his distinctive artistic style. Containing several hundred glorious reproductions of paintings and drawings, accompanied by an historical overview and comments drawn from the artist's diaries, John Olsen: Journeys into the 'You Beaut Country' provides both the familiar and the uninitiated with a unique vision of Australia.

Journeys Into the You Beaut Country

When, in 1966, Tate Adams opened Crossley Gallery in a lane off Bourke Street, Melbourne, he ioneered the importation of contemporary Japanese prints by masters such as Munakata and Sasajima. These were shown alongside those emerging local artist printmakers including at that time Fred Williams, Roger Kemp, George Baldessin, Bea Maddock and many others. This productive collision of cultures soon established the Crossley Gallery and its associated activities - such as the Crossley Print Workshop - as the hub of activity in this art form. The book contains memoirs of those associated with the Gallery and features prints shown or commissioned by Tate Adams - a leading printmaker himself. It provides first-hand insights into a previously under-examined aspect of the development of contemporary art in Australia. Also comes as a special edition with original wood engraving by Tate Adams, special cloth binding and a slip-case.

The Crossley Gallery, 1966-1980

This volume, companion to John Olsen: Teeming With Life (2005) which contained this artist's complete printmaking oeuvre of more than 900 editions, presents a selection of several hundred paintings and drawings created over more than four decades. Perhaps more than any other post-war artists, John Olsen and Fred Williams have helped Australians see their unique landscape and its features with fresh vision. The several hundred glorious reproductions, accompanied by an historical overview and comments drawn from the artist's diaries, is certain to provide the viewer with an unique vision of Australia and particularly the spectacular 'outback' - as well as honour the artist in his eightieth year.

Jenny Zimmer

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