Bridget McDonnell Gallery

    Member of ANZAAB - Australia


    Art: Australian Art: Colonial Art: Marine Art: Topographical Posters Prints

Established 1983 in High Street Armadale, our Gallery moved to Carlton in 1986.

We have held catalogue exhibitions of Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings; Early Australian Painters; Modern Australian Paintings; Artists Exhibiting in London 1880 - 1940; Australian Women Artists; Australian Prints and an annual Christmas exhibition

We also exhibit Post War Realist Artists from St. Petersburg, Ukraine, Crimea and Siberia in conjunction with our good friend in London, John Barkes

Artists featured: James H. Carse, William Strutt, Jessie Traill, Ethel Carrick Fox, Hilda Rix Nicholas, Will Ashton, Percy Leason, Eric Thake, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, Eric Stewart, Clifford Bayliss, Brigid Cole -Adams, Mary Hammond, Celia Perceval, Peter Trusler, Peter Brown, Juliana Hilton, Margaret Flockton, and Richard Hussey Shaw

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130 Faraday St Carlton, 3053 Australia Get Directions


Store Hours

Sunday, Monday: Closed

Tuesday - Friday: 11-5 pm

Saturday: 12-5 pm

Highlights

Waratahs and Flannel Flowers c1894-'97 by Margaret Flockton
$8500
Watercolour 36 x 42 cm Signed; inscribed on reverse Waratahs and Flannel Flowers, Australia Provenance: Private collection UK until 2021 This watercolour was probably No. 186, Wild Flowers, N.S.W., £18.18.0, Spring Exhibition, Art Society of NSW, 1897. It was also exhibited and sold, at the Exhibition of Australian Art, May, 1898, Grafton Galleries, London. No. 134, Some Wild Flowers, £18.18.0 Margaret Flockton (1861-1953) was Australia’s first and most celebrated professional botanical artist. We have limited copies of the excellent biography on the artist for sale Margaret Fl
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Richard Hussey Shaw
$15000
Watercolour and gouache 31 x 42.5 cm Signed R. H. Shaw and dated indistinctly Provenance: Private collection until 2005 A later version of this painting titled South Australian Blacks in Full War Dress 1891 is in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia Shaw arrived in Australia from England c1858 and settled in Adelaide. He was the son of Captain George Reynolds Shaw. He was a watercolour and scene-painter, produced watercolour landscapes and sketches of Aborigines in South Australia.
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