The Australian Women's Register

MS 9917 comprises files on Australian artists (alphabetical from Barossa Studios to A.R. Betteridge) (1 packet). The Acc05.156 instalment comprises the “Index to Professor Joan Kerr’s files on Australian art history, 1788-2003” in both printed format and on floppy disk (1 folder). The Acc05.163 instalment consists of files that contain original research and secondary material, much from obscure articles and catalogues, which are difficult to access in the original. The consignment includes catalogues of exhibitions, extracts from auction sale lists, copies of newspaper and journal articles, reproductions of images, letters and draft articles. Some of the material was intended for use in the two dictionaries which Kerr edited: The dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 (1992), and, Heritage: the national women’s art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial time to 1955 (1995) (113 boxes).