Bridget McDonnell Gallery

    Member of ANZAAB - Australia

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

Established 1983.

We hold regular 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 where everything is priced under $2000.

Since 1998 we have also held regular exhibitions of Post War Realist Artists from St. Petersburg, Ukraine, Crimea and Siberia in conjunction with our good friend John Barkes, London.

Contact Information
Phone: +0419306593
Website: https://www.bridgetmcdonnellgallery.com.au/

Highlights
Volcano with Blue Lake and Plains 1979 by Shay Docking
$8500
Volcanic landscape by this important artist, often featured in exhibitions in Public Galleries in Australia and New Zealand but still little known in her home state. Shay Docking (1928 - 1998) was born in Warrnambool and grew up at Tower Hill. Her views of Tower Hill are in the Warrnambool Gallery collection. This was from her Volcanic Plains Series 1979. It is Pastel and acrylic on paper on board, 76.2 x 97.8 cm, Signed. See recent article by Rhonda Dredge, Inner City News A dramatic modernist with a fluid line https://www.innercitynews.com.au/a-dramatic-modernist-with-a-fluid-line
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Common Sea Birds 1977 by Peter Trusler
$7500
Original painting for the Poster produced for The Gould League of Victoria in 1977 by Peter Trusler. Titled Common Sea Birds, it is an oil on board measuring 79 x 52 cm and is signed and dated. It has come from the collection of Margaret Cameron by descent to The Ornithological Society, Brisbane
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Hell's Menu 1915 by Norman Lindsay
$4500
Bulletin Illustration Ink and collage 50 x 35.5 cm Signed and titled Poem by “The Snake,” NSW attached Verso Stamped Published 25.3.15 Provenance: Peter Coleman; Jim Davidson, Fitzroy Literature: The Bulletin, Thursday March 25th, 1915
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The Clipper Blue Jacket at Sea 1869 by Hugh Hughes
$3500
Pencil and coloured crayon drawing on prepared board 32.5 x 46.3 cm Signed and dated; also titled below the image under the mount. Provenance: Private collection, UK until 2011. The Blue Jacket was an American clipper built in Boston in 1858 and well known for the lavish decoration of the staterooms and saloon. She served in the Liverpool and Australia trades between 1860-1864. The ship was named after The Blue Jackets, a traditional name for sailors in the US and British navies. Hugh Hughes was an Able Seaman aboard the Blue Jacket in 1867.
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Illustrated Letter of Honour and Farewell to Doctor Alex Lewers, Creswick 1898 by Percy Lindsay
$4500
Including four vignettes of local buildings Watercolour and ink 57.2 x 45.7 cm Signed also initialled and dated below each vignette and inscribed. Alexander Lewers 1877-1922 born Creswick, worked and trained London and St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
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Mary Hammond ink and watercolour sketches of scenes depicting life around Melbourne
Mary Hammond was born in 1928. Her sketches of people and places around Melbourne Prices range from $475-$850 Unframed
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