James Cant
[Adelaide], Brolga Books, 1970.
Square quarto, [18] pages plus 27 plates (7 in colour).
Flush-cut card covers; extremities slightly bumped (with associated light creasing to a few corner tips); an excellent copy with the lightly used colour-pictorial dustwrapper.
The frontispiece photographic portrait of James Cant is signed and dated (1970) by him; the handwriting clearly shows the effects of advanced multiple sclerosis, the disease that had confined him to a wheelchair from the mid-1960s. James Montgomery Cant (1911-1982) was married to fellow-Australian artist, Dora Chapman. The title page is signed by the author, Elizabeth Young, the second daughter of John Young of Macquarie Galleries fame (she published her later books under her married name, Jean [Elizabeth] Campbell). Her husband was the artist and arts administrator Robert Campbell. Loosely inserted is a catalogue for the James Cant Exhibition at the 1966 Adelaide Festival of Arts, complete with the inserted list of prices (or names of lenders of artworks to the exhibition). The front cover is signed in black marker pen by James Cant, and inscribed in ink in another hand 'Opening by Her Honor, Justice Mitchell, Sunday 13th March at 3. p.m.'. [3 items].
Item #138802
Price (AUD):
$300.00