Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Biographies of the artists -- The art schools -- 'Plein air' painting: the early artists' camps around Melbourne -- Marvellous Melbourne -- Heidelberg summers -- The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition, 1889 -- Naturalism and nationalism -- Sydney Harbour -- Melbourne's answer in the 90s-'Charterisville' -- Bibliography
Notes
Exhibition Held at National Gallery of Victoria, 30 Oct. 1985-27 Jan. 1986, Art Gallery of Nsw, 21 Feb.-20 Apr. 1986, Art Gallery of South Australia, 9 May-29 June 1986 and Art Gallery of Western Australia, 30 July-14 Sept. 1986