“The Art Student.” Sydney Art School Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 and No. 3, 1930 and 1932.

Publisher: Sydney Art School, Sydney.

Format: Pair of softcover octavo magazines, staple bound in red or blue wrappers, unpaginated, 25.2 x 18.4cm to 26 x 17.8cm.

Volume one, number one, 1930. Red wrappers with printed label pasted down, 32pp. Edited by W. Cunningham, Mavis Dixon and Quinton Tidswell. Edition limited to 200 copies. Includes a loosely inserted reproduction portrait of Julian Ashton by George Lambert, and a tipped-in linocut by Joshua Smith titled Mother.

Volume one, number three, 1932. Blue linocut wrappers by Arthur Freeman, 36pp. Edited by Clif. Pier with Arthur Freeman and Larry Bowler. One page illustrated with a linocut by Margaret Richardson titled Landscape.

The Sydney Art School, also known as the Julian Ashton Art School, was founded by Julian Ashton in 1890 and continues to offer traditional realist art skills, as painted by its founder Julian Ashton (English/Australian, 1851–1942).

Held in NLA.

Creases, minor tears to edges, some discolouration to wrappers. Foxing throughout volume one.