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by Glenn Barkley, Ken Whisson

A catalogue documenting a sixty-year career of painting and drawing, tracing themes ranging from human relations to natural and built environments. It accompanies a 2012 retrospective held at Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Accession 36696 ISBN 9781921330247 Publisher Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, NSW)
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