A Survey of Western Australian Art from 1696

An informative walk through the history of Western Australian art from 1696 to the present day.  The book ‘addresses the role that artists and their works have played in the state’s socio-economic development. Many early-colonial artists were immigrants skilled in surveying and lithography, whereas in the 1890s gold rushes, the colony attracted many bona-fide artists from the eastern colonies. The twentieth century saw a professional approach to arts administration as well as the creation of influential private galleries.’