Format: Four items: One lithograph exhibition catalogue, two letterpress and process screen catalogues, one lithograph card, sizes range from 11.4 x 15.3cm to 29.4 x 25.4cm.

1). “Farewell dinner to Arthur Streeton (Smike). From his brother artists in Sydney. Jan’ry 23 1897. Upon your sword sit laurel victory! And smooth success be strewed before your feet. A.H. Fullwood.” Lithograph card in brown ink by A.H. Fullwood. Streeton sailed for London via Cairo in early 1897, after his first one-man exhibition in December 1896. Fullwood quotes Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra for good travels.

2). “Exhibition & auction sale of paintings by Arthur Streeton. November 1923. In Farmer’s exhibition hall. Included in the exhibition and offered at auction: three valuable pen drawings by Norman Lindsay, and an oil by Charles Conder.” Letterpress booklet in textured card wrappers, 14pp, seven process-screen illustrations tipped in, four in colour, with annotations in ink in an unknown hand, listing auction results, such as, next to Streeton’s Amiens Cathedral listing, “Sold. Levy 36gs (Marcus Clarke privately 200gs).” Three drawings by Norman Lindsay, including The Bacchanal, were passed in. Accompanied by a four-page abbreviated catalogue of the same auction.

3). “Variations. By Sir Arthur Streeton, Athanaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 13 May 1940. This, probably the last exhibition by the artist, is dedicated to Alister Clark, Esq. Note: Profits from catalogue sales to be devoted to Dandenong Range Fund for the AIF on their return.” Lithograph exhibition catalogue with letterpress and process screen illustration. Incredibly modern cover design.

4). “Streeton Memorial exhibition. Souvenir catalogue, the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1945.” Letterpress exhibition catalogue with eight process screen illustrations, four in colour, 15pp. With an essay on Streeton by Lionel Lindsay.

Arthur Streeton (1867–1943), one of Australia’s best known and most influential landscape painters and member of the Heidelberg School.

Provenance: Fullwood estate.

General foxing, creases and tears to edges, AGNSW catalogue missing back wrapper, torn and chipped.