Guide to the Papers of Bernard Smith
MS 8680, MS Acc10.064, MS Acc10.088,.MS Acc13.037, MS Acc15.122
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: December 2020
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Smith, Bernard
- Title
- Papers of Bernard Smith
- Date Range
- 1902-2011
- Collection Number
- MS 8680, MS Acc10.064, MS Acc10.088,.MS Acc13.037, MS Acc15.122
- Extent
- 20.63 metres (113 ms boxes + 2 elephant folios + 1 large folio +1 archives box + 3 large folio boxes)
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Manuscripts)
Introduction
Scope and Contents
MS 8680 comprises correspondence, principally with Jack Lindsay, 1979-1988, handwritten drafts, notes and typescripts of talks, lectures, addresses, book reviews and articles. There are a large number of drafts of articles, later published in journals and newspapers such as Meanjin, Art and Australia and the Age.
The Acc10.064 instalment consists of Bernard Smith's appointment diaries, daybooks and journals; notebooks for research, overseas travel, exhibitions and journalism; school work books; album of news clippings; various awards, badges and medals including Centenary of Federation medal, Ph.D. (ANU), Doctor of Letters - Honoris Causa (University of Melbourne), Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and honorary Doctorate of Letters (University of Sydney). There are also 20 diaries of Smith's first wife, Kate Smith (Kate Challis).
The Acc10.088 instalment comprises general and current files titled by subject or correspondent, which include personal and professional correspondence, research notes, conference materials, bibliographies, news clippings, drafts, papers submitted to journals, annual reports, photographs, invitations, book launch ephemera, personal and family papers; art catalogues including Power Institute Gallery catalogues; published articles, lectures and offprints including Sydney University and Power Institute; video and audio cassettes, CD-ROMs and slides; microform of Alderney Papers held in Royal College of Surgeons; diary of 1980 China trip; reviews; exhibition posters; research notebooks; sketch books, loose pencil drawings and watercolours by Smith, including juvenilia; posters advertising art exhibitions and lectures; map of Norfolk Island; and, a small number of papers of Kate Smith.
The Acc13.037 instalment comprises papers documenting Bernard Smith's professional life as an art historian, writer and lecturer, including notebooks and diaries, correspondence, subject and artists' files, draft manuscripts, steel engravings, photographs, maps and ephemera.The photographs largely comprise images of artworks used in Smith's publications about art relating to the voyages of Captain James Cook, but also of artists and their artworks. The notebooks are autobiographical, used by Smith in the preparation of The boy Adeodatus: the portrait of a lucky young bastard. In addition there is a file pertaining to Smith's role as President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1973-1982).
The Acc15.122 instalment comprises written and pictorial archives belonging to Bernard Smith including correspondence; extensive research files for his publications; drafts; photographs; artworks, including pencil sketches of Ned Kelly by Sidney Nolan; personal documents and papers relating to his wife Kate Smith. The collection also includes significant material relating to The Antipodeans group, including the minute book from their first meeting on 19 February 1959. Present were Bernard Smith, John Perceval, David Boyd, Clifton Pugh, Arthur Boyd, Charles Blackman and John Brack.
Conditions Governing Access
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn338224).
Conditions Governing Use
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Bernard Smith, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file number]'.
Provenance
These papers were donated to the National Library by Professor Bernard Smith in instalments received in 1995 (two consignments), 1996, 1997 (two consignments) 1998, 1999 and 2000. Further papers were added in 2010 (two consignments) and 2013.
Arrangement
Bernard Smith's arrangement of the papers has been preserved by the Library. This finding-aid is based on listings provided by the donor.
Collection Retrieval Advice
Please note: each consignment in this collection has a separate box number sequence (i.e. there are multiple Box 1's). Please cite the relevant Class number as well as the Box number when requesting retrieval of material from the collection.
Biographical Note
Bernard Smith, art historian, lecturer and critic, was born in 1916 and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Burwood. He studied at the Sydney Teachers' College 1934-35, the University of Sydney 1945-48, the Courtauld Institute of Art and Warburg Institute, London, 1948-49, and completed his PhD at the Australian National University in 1953-54.
Smith's professional career as a teacher led to his appointment as education officer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1945-52. He lectured at the Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne from 1955, and was appointed Reader, 1964-66. During this period he was also art critic for the Melbourne Age. Smith was Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of the Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney University, 1967-77. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Smith was president, 1977-80.
Smith's first major publication was Place, taste and tradition (1945). During his time at the University of Sydney, his publications included The architectural character of Glebe, Sydney (1974), editor, Documents on art and taste in Australia: the colonial period, 1770-1914 (1975), Concerning contemporary art: the Power Lectures, 1968-73 (1975) and The Antipodean manifesto: essays in art and history (1976). Other publications include European vision and the South Pacific, 1768-1850 (1960), Australian painting 1788-1960 (1962), The art of Captain Cook's voyages (1985-87), Imagining the Pacific (1992) and Noel Counihan: artist and revolutionary (1993). The autobiography of his early years (1916-1940) was published in 1984 as The boy Adeodatus- the portrait of a lucky young bastard.
Item Descriptions
Class MS 8680. Original Consignment
Correspondence between Jack Lindsay and Bernard Smith, 1979-88 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS 8680)
Relates mainly to the preparation of a Lindsay festschrift Culture and history: essays presented to Jack Lindsay (1984), but also to Lindsay's wish to sell his collection of Greek and Roman antiquities. Also includes letters from Smith to Michael Wilding, Robert Mackie and Professor Alexander Cambitiglou.
Class MS 8680. Added 21 December 1995
In this addition, the item numbers relate to a list compiled by Bernard Smith and located in the beginning of Folder 3.
[untitled] (File 5) - Box 1 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 6) - Box 1 (MS 8680)
'Paper on Surrealism', to the NSW Teachers' Federation Art Society 16 October 1940, 12p. (As part of a symposium of three papers, with the others given by James Gleeson and Albert Tucker) (Item 6)
Notes for the opening of the 1940 annual exhibition of the NSW Teachers' Federation Art Society, 3p. (incomplete) (Item 7)
[untitled] (File 7) - Box 1 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 9) - Box 1 (MS 8680)
Material written for the Catalogue of the Art Exhibition held in conjunction with the twenty fifth anniversary of the Communist Party of Australia, August 1945 (Item 24)
'Taking Art to Country Centres: the work of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales Country Exhibition Scheme', broadcast talk 2BL 9.20 pm 26 October 1945, 7p (Item 26)
Notes on the 'Teaching of creative art', written for George Blakemore, Inspector of Schools, Murwillumbah, 27 October 1945, 3p (Item 27)
'Country Art Exhibitions', broadcast over Grafton Broadcasting Station, 3 December 1945, 5p (Item 29)
[untitled] (File 10) - Box 2 (MS 8680)
'Australian art', Australia, edited by Hartley Grattan, University of California, United Nations Series, 1947, 15p (Item 39)
'On looking at Paintings', notes for a CEMA (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts) talk c.1946, 1p (Item 41)
[untitled] (File 11) - Box 2 (MS 8680)
English 1 exercise in taste, set by Wesley Milgate. Department of English evening course, University of Sydney, l946 (Item 54)
HoniSoit review of the Australian University Students National Art Exhibition held at Sydney University in June l947 (Item 55)
'Some notes and comments on the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Art Prize Awards for 1947', Meanjin, Febuary 1948 (Item 56)
'100 Years of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Celebrating the Centenary of Public Education in NSW', April 1948 (Item 57)
[untitled] (File 12) - Box 2 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 13) - Box 2 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 14) - Box 2 (MS 8680)
'The English Portraits of William Dobell', ARNA (the Sydney University Magazine), June 1947 (Item 71)
Class MS 8680. Added 12 December 1996
[untitled] (File 16) - Box 2 (MS 8680)
Art in the Country, National Art Gallery of NSW, c.1946 (an account of the first year, 1944-45, of the country art exhibition project established by Smith while on secondment to the National Art Gallery of NSW from the NSW Education Department).
Catalogue for the exhibition, Some recent Australian painting, National Art Gallery and Department of Education NSW, Canberra, December 1944 (according to Smith, this was probably the first time that contemporary Australian painting was shown publicly in Canberra. The exhibition was in the Scouts' Hall, a quarter mile from the Kurrajong Hotel).
Class MS 8680. Added 27 March 1997
[untitled] (File 18) - Box 3 (MS 8680)
Schedule of lectures and notes on the History of Painting for a course of lectures given to the School of Architecture. NSW University of Technology, June- July 1953 (Item 2)
Review of M. H. Ellis, Francis Greenway his Life and Times (Historical Studies, May, 1955) (Item 2a)
'Australian colonial art'. Unpublished lecture. Department of Fine Arts, Melbourne, 29 September 1953 (Item 8)
[untitled] (File 19) - Box 3 (MS 8680)
'William Hodges', paper probably given to the History Department Seminar, University of Melbourne, 1953 (Item 14)
'The Celebration of Transience', lecture, University of Sydney, 7 April 1954. Published in The Antipodean Manifesto (1976) (Item 15)
'New Light and the Ancient Mariner', paper given to a seminar at the Australian National University, 1954 or 1955 (Item 16)
Notes for opening of Moya Dyring's exhibition, Peter Bray Gallery, Melbourne, 5 October 1956 (Item 17)
'The Genesis of Australian Art', talk to the History Association, University of Melbourne, July 1956 (Item 18)
[untitled] (File 20) - Box 3 (MS 8680)
Article on 'Australian Art' written in April 1956 for the Oxford Companion to Art (ed Harold Osborne, 1970) 'The Interpretation of Australian Nature during the Nineteenth Century'. English Hons. BA Thesis. Sydney University, 1952 (Item 21)
Notes for Exhibition of Paintings by John Perceval. Australian Galleries, Collingwood, November 1956 (Item 22)
'The Antipodeans', talk at the Annual Dinner, Fellowship of Australian Writers, Society Restaurant, 1 Sept 1959 (Item 24)
Address at the presentation of diplomas, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide. Published in Art Education Today. (Item 27)
Notes based on comments by Bernard Smith at the Arts Faculty Meetings, Melbourne University, 4 August 1960. [most of the notes were compiled subsequent to the meeting] (Item 28)
[untitled] (File 21) - Box 3 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 23) - Box 3 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 24) - Box 3 (MS 8680)
Statement tended to the Woollahra City Council embodying objections to the widening of Jersey Road, Paddington, NSW, 1967 (Item 63)
'The Art Museum and the University', Art Galleries Association, National Gallery of Victoria, 1967 (Item 66)
Class MS 8680. Added 20 June 1997
(Papers 1950-1969)
[untitled] (File 26) - Box 4 (MS 8680)
Exhibition catalogue entitled "Antipodeans 4-15 Aug.1959". Artists exhibiting in this exhibition were Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Bob Dickerson, John Perceval and Clifton Pugh. The catalogue is introduced by 'The Antipodean Manifesto' which was also signed by Bernard Smith. According to Smith, the Manifesto 'created a major controversy in art circles that is still unresolved'.
Class MS 8680. Added 16 January 1998
(published and unpublished 1970 - 1980)
[untitled] (File 27) - Box 4 (MS 8680)
'The Power Institute of Fine Arts', published as 'Sydney's Power Institute of Fine Arts', Studio International, 1970 pp 142-144, ill (Item 1)
Review of Donald F. Lach's Asia in the making of Europe Vol 2, Chicago University Press, 1970, published in the American Historical Review, 23 Oct. 1971 (Item 5)
Review of John Hetherington, Norman Lindsay the Embattled Olympian, Melbourne University Press, 1973 (Item 6)
Review of Architecture for the New World. The Work of Harry Seidler by Peter Blake, Horwitz, Sydney, 1973 (Item 7)
[untitled] (File 28) - Box 4 (MS 8680)
Draft notes for a book on 'Art and the Industrial System' submitted to Phaidon Press, Oxford (Item 16)
Copies of two letters published in the Sydney Morning Herald in July and October 1974 (newspaper cuttings) (Item 19)
'The New Commonwealth Patronage and the Arts', article for the Age, National Review, July 1974 (Item 20)
[untitled] (File 29) - Box 4 (MS 8680)
'The Local and the Universal in Australian Colonial Landscape Painting', given at Seminar of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, [1975] (Item 33)
Vote of thanks following the opening of the Sylvia Snowden exhibition at the Seymour Centre, University of Sydney, Sept 1975 (Item 36)
'The Australian Government and the Visual Arts. Is it a Labor Policy?' and another version subtitled 'Is there another way?' (Item 37)
[untitled] (File 30) - Box 4 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 31) - Box 4 (MS 8680)
Class MS 8680. Added 14 January 1999
(Papers written between 1980 and 1990)
[untitled] (File 34) - Box 5 (MS 8680)
Art in the service of science' (written as an introduction to vols 1 and 2 of The art of Captain Cooks voyages, but later abandoned) (Item 1)
'Captain Cook: artists and the portrayal of Pacific peoples': lecture given at the Museum of Mankind, London (Item 2)
[untitled] (File 35) - Box 5 (MS 8680)
Draft of an opening talk at Apmira Art Exhibition, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney, 23 October 1981 (Item 6)
Review of Victorian treasures from the La Trobe Collection by Ann Glover; State Library of Victoria published in the Australian Book Review, 1981 (Item 7)
'Communism and the Visual Arts in the 1940's' review of Rebels and Precursors by Richard Haese for the Age Monthly Review, 2 October 1981 (Item 8)
Draft of talk at the launching of Richard Haese's Rebels and precursors, October 1981, State Library of Victoria (Item 9)
[untitled] (File 36) - Box 5 (MS 8680)
Review of Race relations in Australian history by A.T. Yarwood and M.J. Knowling, 1982 for the Sydney Morning Herald, November 1982 (Item 1 7)
Early draft of a review of Felicity St John Moore's Vassilieff and his art for the Sydney Morning Herald, November 1982 (Item 18)
'Jack Lindsay's Biography of Artists' for his festschrift, Culture and history, edited by Bernard Smith (Item 20)
'Art galleries and the teaching of art history' for the Association of Australian Art Conference, Sydney, 7 August 1982 (Item 21)
Notes for a talk (not given) 'My Role in the art of the 1940s' requested by David Bromfield to give to the School of Art in Hobart (Item 23)
'History' talk to Half Time: Architects Ex Student Group, Melbourne Architecture School, 24 July 1982 (Item 26)
[untitled] (File 38) - Box 5 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 39) - Box 5 (MS 8680)
Review of Sydney Parkinson: artist of Cook's Endeavour voyage by D.J Carr, written for the Journal of Pacific History but not published (Item 36)
Forward to Charles Merewether's exhibition 'Art and social commitment' Art Gallery of NSW, November 1984 (Item 37)
[untitled] (File 40) - Box 5 (MS 8680)
'On Cultural Convergence' paper written for Jenny Zimmer at RMIT, 30 April 1985. Completed 1986 (Item 41)
'Marx and Aesthetic Value' Completed January 1986, published in The death of the artist as hero: essays in history and culture. (Item 43)
[untitled] (File 41) - Box 5 (MS 8680)
Talk in the 'Accepting a challenge' series at the Australian Academy of the Humanities, AGM, in 1985 or 1986 (Item 46)
'Greece and the European colonisation of the Pacific', first given at the conference on 'Ancient Hellenism, Greek colonists and native populations' Sydney University, July 1985. Later published in Greek colonists and native populations edited by Jean-Paul Descoeudres, 1990 and Imagining the Pacific, 1992 (Item 47)
'The use and value of catalogues of the permanent collections of our public art galleries', Margaret Carengie Seminar 'Documentation of Australian art', Riverina College of Advanced Education c.1986. Later published as 'The Art Museum and Public Accountability' in The death of the artist as hero: essays in history and culture (Item 48)
[untitled] (File 42) - Box 6 (MS 8680)
'Is there a radical tradition in Australian art' later published in The death of the artist as hero: essays in history and culture,, 1988 (Item 54)
'Art objects and historical usage' for the AHA Symposium 'Who owns the past', Canberra, 20 May 1983. Also read at the Research Methodology Seminar Programme 1984, Department of Fine Arts Melbourne, 9 May 1984 (Item 55)
[untitled] (File 43) - Box 6 (MS 8680)
Note for the Australian Book Review June 1983 on The Antipodes observed: artists of Australia, 1788-1850 (Item 61)
Response to David Holbrook's review of Jack Lindsay's Life Rarely Tells for the Age Monthly Review,, 1983 (Item 62)
Notes for an opening address for an exhibition of Noel Counihan's art at Flinders University, 11 November 1984 (Item 63)
Notes for the opening of the James Cant exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, 29 February 1984 (Item 64)
'Who was the Port Jackson Painter?', talk at the Canberra School of Art, 1986 and the Library Society of New South Wales, 26 April 1988 (Item 65)
Notes for the opening of the John Skinner Prout exhibition, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 9 December 1986 (Item 66)
Notes for the opening of the 'Cheer Up Children' exhibition, Museum of Victoria, 23 October 1986 (Item 68)
[untitled] (File 44) - Box 6 (MS 8680)
'Reflections on the 1940s' a talk given to the Friends of Heide, at Heide Park, Sunday 13 July 1986 (Item 72)
[untitled] (File 45) - Box 6 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 46) - Box 6 (MS 8680)
Review of Ann Galbally's The Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, for Meanjin, 1987 (Item 81)
Draft for review of Tim Bonyhady's Australian colonial painting in the National Gallery, 1987. Draft notes for a review of vols 1 and 2 of 83Australians an historical survey. (Item 82)
[untitled] (File 47) - Box 6 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 48) - Box 6 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 49) - Box 7 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 50) - Box 7 (MS 8680)
'Cook's Voyage: vision of the South Pacific.' Lecture given to the Library Society State Library of New South Wales, 11 June 1989 (Item 102)
Brief note on the proposed folio of prints by artists to honour the memory of Noel Counihan planned by Graham King but never published, February 1989 (Item 106)
'Australian art and British arrogance' published in Modern Painters, London under another title (Item 107)
Class MS 8680. Added 6 January 2000
(Papers written between 1991-1999)
[untitled] (File 51) - Box 7 (MS 8680)
Review of The quest for grace by Manning Clark, published in the Independent Monthly, 7 October 1990 (Item 111)
Drafts of an address given at the launching of the Council for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) banner, 28 October 1990 (Item 113)
Speech at the opening of the retrospective exhibition of work by Diana Mogensen, Dempster Gallery, Melbourne, 20 September 1991 (Item 115)
Answers to questions related to Australian art for the ABC Open University, 19 September 1991 (Item 116)
[untitled] (File 52) - Box 7 (MS 8680)
'Intellectual currents in Australia, 1930-1939'. Lecture for the History Department, Australian National University, 1991 (unpublished) (Item 121)
'Francis Lymburner: a personal memoir', written for Barry Pearce, Curator of Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales for his retrospective exhibition of Lymburner's work, July 1991 (Item 122)
'Geoffrey Bardon, Papunya Tula art of the Western Desert', for Australian Society, October 1991 (Item 123)
Review of The colour of time: Claude Monet by Virginia Spate for the Australian, November 1992 (Item 124)
Review of Making Australian art by Nancy D.H. Underhill, written in September 1991 for the March issue of Art and Australia, 1992 (Item 125)
[untitled] (File 53) - Box 7 (MS 8680)
Address given at the launch of the catalogue of the Newman College Collection, A deep sonorous thing, by Christopher Marshall, 26 July 1993 (Item 130)
Address at the opening of the Richard Beck exhibition, Joshua McClelland Gallery, Melbourne, 23 March 1993 (Item 131)
Review of the exhibition of works by Peter Kennedy, 'Chorus: from the breath of wings', Heide Park, 4 June 1993 (Item 132)
Review of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook by Gananath Obeysekere, Princeton University Press, 1992 (Item 133)
Tribute to Roderick Shaw, 1915-1992, at the Memorial Service, Waterside Workers' Federation, Sussex Street, Sydney, 6 March 1993 (Item 134)
'Modernism as a late nineteenth century style', Australian Art Association Conference, La Trobe University, 14 November 1993 (Item 135)
Introduction for the catalogue of a retrospective of the work of Geoff Hogg, Shepparton Art Gallery Exhibition, written, 10 June 1993 (Item 136)
Talk to a teachers' group at the National Gallery of Victoria on the occasion of a retrospective of the work of Arthur Boyd, 30 April 1994 (Item 137)
[untitled] (File 54) - Box 7 (MS 8680)
[untitled] (File 55) - Box 7 (MS 8680)
'Cultural imperialism and the formalesque', draft of the last chapter of Modernism's history (Item 151)
'Modernism's history', talk at the Tate Gallery, London, September 1998, later published in Art Monthly (Item 154)
'Thank you' statement after the launch by Peter Timms of Modernism's history at the Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne, 27 August 1998 (Item 155)
'On Patrick's patricidal impulse', a response to Patrick McCaughey's review of Modernism's history, in The Australian Review of Books, August 1998 (Item 156)
[untitled] (File 56) - Box 8 (MS 8680)
'The Rex Nan Kivell Collection: a memoir', article for National Library of Australia News, August 1998 (Item 160)
Review of The Europeans in Australia, Volume 1, for the first issue of The Republican, March 1997 (Item 161)
'Grounds, Boulee and Ledoux', article for The Australian, defending the retention of the 'glass window' of the National Gallery of Victoria (Item 162)
'Australian art and the NGV', for Like, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology magazine, August 1997 (Item 163)
Review of The reds: the Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality by Stuart McIntrye, for The Australian's review of books, May 1998 (Item 164)
'Modernity and its modernisms', talk to La Trobe University Sociology students, 24 March 1998 (Item 165)
Review of Giorgione the painter of poetic beauty by Jaynie Anderson, for The Australian's review of books, July 1998 (Item 166)
[untitled] (File 57) - Box 8 (MS 8680)
Notes for a talk on the art of Ginger Riley, National Gallery of Victoria, 15 September 1997 (Item 170)
Speech at the opening of the exhibition 'The dark years' at the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 29 August 1997 (Item 171)
Review of Male trouble, a crisis in representation by Abigail Solomon-Godeau for The Australian's review of books (Item 172)
Critique of David Boyd's painting The trial IV, for a proposed book on the art collection of the University of Sydney (Item 174)
Critique of Robert Dickerson's triptych Homage to Goya, for a proposed book on the art collection of the University of Sydney (Item 175)
Review of Farewell to an idea: episodes from a history of modernism, by T.J. Clark for The Australian's review of books, July 1999 (Item 176)
Review of The favored circle: the social foundations of architectural distinction by Garry Stevens for Thesis 11 (Item 178)
Review of The view from the bridge: aspects of culture, the published version of Pierre Ryckman's 1996 Boyer Lectures, for Meanjin, February 1997 (Item 181)
[untitled] (File 58) - Box 8 (MS 8680)
Class MS Acc10.064. Added 6 April 2010
Series. Diaries of Kate Smith
Nature note book - including notes on plants in various places, and illustrations of flowers and plants, 1939-1967 (File 19) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.064)
Green cover - 'PNEU School, Burgess Hill', bookplate 'Ex libris Ruth Adeney'
Diary, 1970 (File 20) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.064)
The Early Australian Scene - buildings tell the story - desk diary
Photograph album - holiday shots, including Kew Gardens, Ridgeway walk?, family, Sydney Harbour, 1973 (File 21) - Box 7 (MS Acc10.064)
Blue cover
Ridgeway Walk notebook - includes journal entries, photographs, sketches, 1973 (File 21) - Box 7 (MS Acc10.064)
Rowney A5
Series. Miscellaneous
Card holder - London travel pass, BL manuscripts reader's ticket, 1990s? (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.064)
Small
Ring binder containing photographs and notes on significant artworks; Inside front of binder says 'To Bernard, with best wishes from the Gallery Staff, Dec. 1953', 1953? (File 18) - Box 5 (MS Acc10.064)
Honorary Doctor of Letters - University of Sydney, 1997 (File 19) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.064)
Blue folder
Australia Council for the Arts, Emeritus Award, 2004, 2004 (File 19) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.064)
Contained in metal box
Class MS Acc10.088. Added 28 May 2010
Series. Files - General Ar-Au
Art Gallery Society of NSW lecture 1953, including inside folder Art Gallery of NSW history of the gallery/D. Thomas, 1953 (File 11) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.088)
Universities Australian national - including lecture notes + Australian architects, 1950s (File 12) - Box 1 (MS Acc10.088)
Art historical studies in Australia - material for AHA proceedings 1982-1983, including survey data, 1982-1983 (File 21) - Box 2 (MS Acc10.088)
Series. Files - General Bo-Col
C - Cuffnells - Conder, including notes from the centennial history of NSW, c.1960s (File 78) - Box 6 (MS Acc10.088)
Comité International d'Historie de L'Art (CIHA) conference - London, 2000 (File 90) - Box 7 (MS Acc10.088)
Clevely, John - artist on Cook's third voyage, including photographs, 1978-1996 (File 93) - Box 7 (MS Acc10.088)
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Cook's voyage, including correspondence, 1950s (File 94) - Box 7 (MS Acc10.088)
Series. Files - General - Col-Coo
Commonwealth Literary Fund lecture - Newcastle UC, late 1960s-early 1970s (File 101) - Box 8 (MS Acc10.088)
Congress for National Cooperation and Disarmament - re festival of art competition, 1959-1960 (File 105) - Box 8 (MS Acc10.088)
First voyage charts and views - including second draft of catalogue raisonne of coastal views by Rudiger Joppien, 1970s, 2002 (File 107) - Box 8 (MS Acc10.088)
Cook charts and views - second voyage - duplicates, photocopies, clipping, 1980s, 2004 (File 111) - Box 9 (MS Acc10.088)
Cook eulogies - Jianetti, M. Elogio del Gapitano Giacomo Cook - photocopies (File 118) - Box 9 (MS Acc10.088)
Australian Research Grants Committee (ARGC) grant 1980 - art of Cook's voyages, 1978-1982 (File 122) - Box 10 (MS Acc10.088)
Series. Cook - general enquiries for The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. Listed alphabetically and by cities alphabetically
Series. Files - General - Coo-Cou
Series. Files - General
Photographs of Emeritus Professor Bernard Smith 01/03/2005, 1/03/2005 (Item NLA.MS-DM003153) - Digital-Carriers-Box 59
1 item, Verbatim, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)Series. Files General E - Geo
Series. Files - General - Ia-Jop
International Association of Art Critics (IAAC) 1 - Australian Division - correspondence within Australia - prior 1967 (File 299) - Box 22 (MS Acc10.088)
Series. Files - General - McL-Nat
Series. Files - General - Per - Pow
Series. Files - General - S-Smi
Series. Files - General - Tra - Web
Series. Files - General - Pour-Ros Wes-Z
Series. SH (shelf): 9+10 Filing Room
Videocassettes + DVD (File 593, 594)
Beyond the Ivory Towers, 27/02/1989, 1989 (Item NLA.MS-SAV007813) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-035
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcSBS
Convicts 13/07/1992. Submitted to Arts Council, 1992 (Item NLA.MS-SAV007814) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-035
1 item, FUJI, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcMore information on casing
"Charles Blackman", RM Films 28/09/1993, 1993 (Item NLA.MS-SAV007815) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-035
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcMore information on casing
Convict Settlers, Ralph T. Walker (Item NLA.MS-SAV007816) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-035
1 item, Scotch 60, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcABC Television (Item NLA.MS-SAV007817) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-035
1 item, Scotch E60, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcMore information on casing
Brush Drawings, R. Trafford Walker (Item NLA.MS-SAV007818) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-035
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcNo Information (Item NLA.MS-SAV007819) - Shelf-Tall OH1-18-035
1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etcMicroform - Adeney papers in Royal College of Surgeons + diary - China trip, 1980 (File 595) - Box 52 (MS Acc10.088)
Cassettes (File 596, 597, 598)
Sightings #25 - ABC Radio national, 17/07/1991 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001226) - Cassette-Box 96
1 item, Compact cassette tapeProfessor Bernard Smith - "A Reply to my Critics", 7/06/1989 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001228) - Cassette-Box 96
1 item, Compact cassette tapeScripsi of the air, 17/04/1989 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001229) - Cassette-Box 96
1 item, Compact cassette tapeKate Beatrice Hartley Smith's Funeral Service, 11/01/1989 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001230) - Cassette-Box 96
1 item, Compact cassette tapeSpectre of Truganini 3A and 3B (Item NLA.MS-SAV001231) - Cassette-Box 96
1 item, Compact cassette tapeKate Beatrice Hartley Smith's Funeral Service, 11/01/1989 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001233) - Cassette-Box 96
1 item, Compact cassette tapeCamarpi - Bernard Smith, 13/07/1985 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001234) - Cassette-Box 96
1 item, Compact cassette tapeMilton Keynes Workshop - Work in Baillieboro and Belfast (Item NLA.MS-SAV001235) - Cassette-Box 96
1 item, Compact cassette tapeMothers memories of tallrand station, Rockhampton (Item NLA.MS-SAV001239) - Cassette-Box 97
1 item, Compact cassette tapeBrother Dermott - Tierney Tapes 102, 23/05/1981 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001240) - Cassette-Box 97
1 item, Compact cassette tapeKate Beatrice Hartley Smith's Funeral Service (Item NLA.MS-SAV001241) - Cassette-Box 97
1 item, Compact cassette tapeBrother Dermott Tierney tapes 3 and 4, 23/05/1981 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001242) - Cassette-Box 97
1 item, Compact cassette tapeMother talking about photos taken at Relaghan by me in May 1981, 1981 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001245) - Cassette-Box 97
1 item, Compact cassette tapeThe concerned concience - Black Voices (Item NLA.MS-SAV001251) - Cassette-Box 98
1 item, Compact cassette tapeSpectre of Truganini 1A and 1B (Item NLA.MS-SAV001256) - Cassette-Box 98
1 item, Compact cassette tapeHumphry McQueen "Books on writing" (Item NLA.MS-SAV001259) - Cassette-Box 98
1 item, Compact cassette tapeBernard Smith 10.08.1982 - Rhys Jones, 10/08/1982 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001260) - Cassette-Box 99
1 item, Compact cassette tapeBernard Smith 22.07.1997, 22/07/1997 (Item NLA.MS-SAV001261) - Cassette-Box 99
1 item, Compact cassette tapeSeries. Current files - By desk - A-I
Series. Desk files, J-Z
Series. Articles, 1981-1939
Series. Files S-Z; Kate - personal; Reviews: 2/2 - Beilharz, Pavane, Modernism
Series. Reviews
Education through art in Australia - Melbourne University Press - 1957-1968 (File 790) - Box 65 (MS Acc10.088)
Oxford University Press - Australian painting, 2nd edition, 1972 - reviews (File 791) - Box 65 (MS Acc10.088)
Oxford University Press - European vision and the South Pacific, 1960 (File 794) - Box 65 (MS Acc10.088)
Yale University Press - European vision and the South Pacific - royalty statements (File 795) - Box 65 (MS Acc10.088)
Oxford University Press, Melbourne - Australian painting - 2nd edition, 1972, including memorandum of agreement (File 796) - Box 65 (MS Acc10.088)
Oxford University Press - Australian painting - reviews, 1962-1963 (File 797) - Box 65 (MS Acc10.088)
Documents in Australian art - Oxford University Press - correspondence, 1973-1975 (File 802) - Box 65 (MS Acc10.088)
Oxford University Press - Place, taste and tradition, 2nd edition, 1979 (File 804) - Box 65 (MS Acc10.088)
Series. Last minute odds and ends, including Formalesque images folder
Series. Artworks
Power Institute - Tin Shed workshops - posters - represent his collected archive of public art (File) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Wallis and Cook's 1st voyage in Pacific : map (File Artwork 2) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Cook's track penned onto map by BS(?)
Cook's 2nd voyage: 2 photocopied charts from UK Public Record Office collection (File Artwork 3-4) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Hodges, Webber et al: 5 large format photographic portraits from Public Archives Canada colleciton (File Artwork 5) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Antipodeans' - exhibition held 15 October 1959: small format reproduction of poster designed by Charles Blackman, 1959 (File Artwork 127) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Framed reproduction of Margarat Preston greeting card, inscribed "To Kate and Bernard, Christmas….Diana, Erin, Saskia and Justine", n.d. (File Artwork 128) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
etching by Arthur Boyd inscribed "Bernard and Kate, Happy Christmas 1973, love from Arthur and Yvonne, 1973 (File Artwork 146) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Coventry' (as inscribed): original framed gouache of female gymnast: labelled on verso "for Mrs Smith, original design for my poster by Fred Coventry", ca.1920s (File Artwork 147) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Australian Wild Flowers': original pencil drawing inscribed "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Joe and Regina Rose" (File Artwork 148) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled original ink sketch on card by Desiderius Orban, n.d. (File Artwork 149) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Girl Asleep': original ink drawing possibly by Nicki Hanley, 1964 (File Artwork 150) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled seated nude: original lithograph, signed but signature illegible, n.d. (File Artwork 151) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled woodcut of arhcnagel with Greek Cyrillic text , signed but signature illegible, n.d. (File Artwork 152) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of jetty and beasch scene: possibly lithograph, signed but signature illegible, n.d. (File Artwork 153) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Ironworker' by Noel Counihan: original lithograph (or sepia conte?), 1948 (File Artwork 154) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of rural village, possibly French, unsigned: original lithograph, n.d. (File Artwork 155) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of lake scene with yachts, signed but signature illegible ([possibly F.K…?]:lithograph, n.d. (File Artwork 156) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled, unsigned work of man ploughing a field: lithograph, n.d. (File Artwork 157) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled, unsigned work possibly of miner's head [by Noel Counihan?], n.d. (File Artwork 158) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled, unsigned work possibly of European scene [by Noel Counihan?], n.d. (File Artwork 159) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Garvaghy': original pencil drawing by George Gittoes, 06-Jul-77 (File Artwork 160) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled charcoal portrait of B Smith [possibly by Carmel O'Connor?]: photocopy (File Artwork 161) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of man in a hat, signed but signature illegible: lithograph [possibly European?] (File Artwork 162) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled lithograph, signed but signature illegible [Peter…..?], 1949 (File Artwork 163) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Ranchos Church at Tikos N.M.': lithograph inscribed "to my good friends the Smiths" , [possible artist, Emil Bistham..?], n.d. (File Artwork 164) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Wie schon macht uns Das Leben der bittere Tod': lithograph inscribed "50', possibly edition number, artisit illegible, n.d. (File Artwork 165) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of curled women, signed E. Hoff: lithograph, n.d. (File Artwork 166) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Foundry Pourer': lithograph signed by Noel Counihan, 1948 (File Artwork 167) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Eat Cak, it's Christmas': lino cut print by Rafaela Thoresson[sp.?] printed by Raft Press Inc, 2005 (File Artwork 168) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Bad Idea Good': lino cut print by Rafaela Thoresson[sp.?] printed by Raft Press Inc, n.d. (File Artwork 169) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of 2 small cottages by Sylvia Snowden, Artist in Residence, Power Institute, University of Sydney, 1978: inscribed "Baltimore USA" on verso (File Artwork 170) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Portrait of B Smith by Sue McDougall: original oil on canvas, 1981 (File Artwork 171) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Linguistic Philosophy..for Prof and Mrs Smith': original ink drawing by Richard Larter of Richard's wife Pat, Dec-72 (File Artwork 172) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of man's head [Bernard Smith?] inscribed "June 1968 at Venice" on verso: original charcoal drawing, 1968 (File Artwork 181) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of woman dozing, unsigned but possibly by B Smith: original pencil sketch, n.d. (File Artwork 182) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of (possibly French) street scene, signed but signature illegible: lithograph, n.d. (File Artwork 183) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Hunter and Wild Bird': intaglio print by Gareth Jones-Roberts, numbered edition 4/5 (File Artwork 184) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'The Gender': original gouache by Helen Maudsley (wife of John Brack) (File Artwork 185) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled lithograph [of newspaper , dated 1947 and signed but signature illegible, 1947 (File Artwork 186) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of mother and child in highchair by Mike Stubbs: original drawing in Texta, n.d. (File Artwork 186) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Rainbow art sheep': inscribed "purchased at Hogarth Galleries C.A.S. exhibition 1974 from art vending machine", 1974 (File Artwork 187) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work, signed by Tyson, dated 12/5/55: original drawing in pink Biro of a cat, 1955 (File Artwork 188) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of two drowning figures, sgned by Gertrud [Skerbs?]: original etching, ca.1947-50 (File Artwork 200) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Gebildet….Willst': by Martine D [rest illegible]: lino cut (File Artwork 201) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of ice-cream cone by Treweeke: Texta pen drawing, 1969 (File Artwork 209) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of back alley scene, unsigned [but possibly by B Smith]: Texta drawing (File Artwork 210) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work by Udo Selbach, inscribed "for Bernard Smith", 1987 (File Artwork 211) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of childe opening a door by [Mike]: original pencil drawing, n.d. (File Artwork 212) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'The Tempest, Miranda and the Enchanted Island' by Sidney Nolan: lithograph copy (File Artwork 213) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work of two figures in heroic socialist realism style: lithograph, n.d. (File Artwork 214) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Army of Private Joe': original ink sketch by George Gittoes, inscribed "to Bernard 19 Dec 2003", 2003 (File Artwork 215) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work by Paul Beadle of head of a man: original pencil sketch, 1951 (File Artwork 216) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'The Boardinghouse' signed by Vic O'Connor: original ink and wash drawing inscribed '1981', ca. 1942/43 (File Artwork 217) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work possibly by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite: original etching on poor quality cardboard, In urgent need of pres attention (File Artwork 218) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Series. Power Institute of Fine Arts - Tin Shed workshops - posters
Power Institute Lecture 1972: poster by Richard Wollheim, 1972 (File Artwork 7) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Sydney University Artworkshop 1975 calendar by Earthworks Poster Collective: original screenprint, 1975 (File Artwork 8) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Power Institute of Fine Arts: poster of exhibition by John Golding, 1974 (File Artwork 9) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Power Institute of Fine Arts lecture by Bernard Smith, 'The death of Artist as Hero…' : poster, n.d. (File Artwork 10) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Lidums Art Gallery - exhibition by Stanislaus Ostoja-Kothowski: commercial poster (File Artwork 11) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Not still lives'. A play about Margaret Preston (1875-1963) & Thea Proctor (1879-1966) held at Iceberg Gallery, Melbourne: screen print poster, 1982 (File Artwork 12) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Peace the only safe fallout': poster, n.d. (File Artwork 13) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Produced in Melbourne
'Tribune Fai'r: poster produced by Red Letter Press, Melbourne, n.d. (File Artwork 14) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Shame on Rascism': screen print produced by Red Letter Press, Melbourne, n.d. (File Artwork 15) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'South Pacific' by David Lang': poster produced by Red Letter Press, Melbourne', n.d. (File Artwork 16) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Police bashings': poster produced by Red Letter Press, Melbourne, n.d. (File Artwork 18) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
David Morrow design for artist-run community access workshop: screen print produced by Red Letter Press, Melbourne - includes quote from M'eanjin' at edge, 1986 (File Artwork 19) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Celebration of Ocean 3'by Jurgen Klaus: limited edition print number 554/100 signed left to right "Klaus 1972/73", 1972 (File Artwork 20) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Noel Counihan single artist exhibition: commercially printed poster, n.d. (File Artwork 21) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Confront Fraser…..rage': screen print, [1976] (File Artwork 22) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Brian Kewley single artist exhibition: poster - inscribed on reverse to "Prof & Mrs Smith", n.d. (File Artwork 23) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Image of soldier with target - without text: poster, n.d. (File Artwork 24) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
John Power Foundation 1975 lecture by Elwyn Lynn: original artwork mock-up, 1975 (File Artwork 25) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Budapest-Japan': commercial offset printed poster, 1973 (File Artwork 26) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'La Chienlit c'est lui': commercial offset poster printed in France, May 1968 (File Artwork 27) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Art & Language' exhibition at National Gallery of Victoria: poster, 1975 (File Artwork 28) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Man House' by Frank Littler (b.1947-): original screen print number 5/10, n.d. (File Artwork 29) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'The Ocean as Creative Experience' - Power Institute Lecture by Jurgen Klaus: screen print poster, probably produced by Tin Sheds Collective, n.d. (File Artwork 30) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
lecture by Clement Greenberg and discussion: poster, [1968?] (File Artworks 31-32) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'The Achievement of Jack Lindsay' - lecture given in Adelaide by Bernard Smith: screenprint poster, Nov-84 (File Artwork 33) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Power Institute of Fine Arts lecture by Bernard Smith, 'The death of Artist as Hero…' : poster, n.d. (File Artworks 34-35) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Power Bequest Exhibition 1968 (4 copies): poster, 1968 (File Artworks 36-39) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Pour la lutte de tous les travailleurs': poster in French (File Artwork 40) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Probably collected on Paris trip
'La chienlit, c'est encore lui': commercial offset poster printed in France, ca.1968? (File Artwork 41) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Action Renault-Flins……': screenprint poster (File Artwork 42) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Noel Counihan: 50 years of his art, 1984': screenprint poster for single artist exhibition, 1984 (File Artwork 43) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Artists for Aboriginal land rights': poster for exhibition fundraiser, n.d. (File Artwork 44) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Strike Sharpeville': original screenprint poster, signed lower left corner, 1970 (File Artwork 45) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Why we can't wait' - lecture at la Trobe University by Archbishop Demond Tutu: poster, n.d. (File Artwork 46) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Works by Kiva' (music group) - artists exhibition at La Trobe University: poster, designed by Gareth Roberts-Jones (b.1935), 1987 (File Artwork 47) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Paintings from Sydney private collections' - exhibition at the John Power Foundation: original screenprint, 1975 (File Artwork 48) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Series. Original sketches by Bernard Smith
29 original sketches by B Smith [of places in England], ca.1949 (File Artworks 51-79) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Antipodeans' - exhibition held 15 October 1959: 2 copies of poster designed by Charles Blackman, 15-11-1959 (File Artwork 80-81) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Sketches of Norfolk Island: small: original sketchbook by B Smith (File Artwork 82) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Sketches of female nudes by B Smith - sketchbook (File Artwork 83) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
large format original photograph by Ray Scobie - signed on verso "To Prof. and Mrs Smith" (File Artwork 84) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original sketch of Wagga Park by B Smith, ca. 1936-1938 (File Artwork 86) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
early original sketchbook by B Smith from his home in Esher St, Burwood, including sketches of Peter, his pet kookaburra, ca. 1934-1935 (File Artwork 87) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original sketches of English scenes by B Smith, 1949 (File Artworks 88-89) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original sketch of Murraguldrie school by B Smith - inscribed 'I walk through here every day on my way to School', 1936 (File Artwork 90) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
B Smith taught at this one room school in rural NSW
'Willow, Pine and Gum' at Murraguldrie school by B Smith: original watercolour sketch, 1937 (File Artwork 91) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original pencil sketch of Murraguldrie school by B Smith, ca.1936-1937 (File Artwork 92) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original conte or charcoal sketch by B Smith, ca.1936-1937 (File Artwork 93) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Unidentified original watercolour (probably by B Smith) (File Artwork 95) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Self portrait by B Smith: original chalk and conte artwork - used as cover illustration for 1st edition of 'The Boy Adeodatus', ca.1938-1939 (File Artwork 96) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original pencil sketch of Murraguldrie school by B Smith, [ca.1936-1937] (File Artwork 97) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Eight original sketches by B Smith in various media, n.d. (File Artworks 98-105) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original charcoal sketch by B Smith (probably Murraguldrie schoolhouse, [ca.1936-1937] (File Artwork 106) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Unsigned original pencil sketch (probably Murraguldrie schoolhouse), n.d. (File Artwork 107) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Pine Study': original pencil sketch by B Smith (File Artwork 108) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Self-portrait: original pencil sketch by B Smith (File Artwork 110) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Bottomless Pit': original pencil sketch by B Smith (File Artwork 111) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original pencil sketch of Murraguldrie schoolhouse by B Smith, 1938 (File Artwork 112) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original pencil sketch of Murraguldrie schoolhouse by B Smith, 1938 (File Artwork 113) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original pencil sketch of gum trees at Murraguldrie schoolhouse by B Smith, 1938 (File Artwork 114) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'The Stables': original pencil sketch of stables at Murraguldrie schoolhouse by B Smith, ca. 1936-1937 (File Artwork 115) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Alan Thoma's: original pencil sketch at Murraguldrie schoolhouse by B Smith, 1938 (File Artwork 116) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original pencil sketch of Murraguldrie schoolhouse by B Smith, 1938 (File Artwork 117) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Four original pencil sketch of Murraguldrie schoolhouse by B Smith, n.d. (File Artworks 118-121) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original watercolour signed B.W.S., n.d [ca.1938?] (File Artwork 122) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
'Dear Hal' [Missingham]: original sketch and poem dated 21/8/71, 1971 (File Artwork 123) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Original watercolour, unsigned and undated, probably by B. Smith, n.d. (File Artwork 124) - Elephant-Folio 74 (MS Acc10.088)
Series. Artworks probably by (Granny) Clare Pepler
Pencil figure drawing, unsigned, n.d. (File Artwork 129) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Sent to 'Ruth' (Kate Challis snr), possibly Granny Pepler's granddaughter
Pencil figure drawing of baby playing piano, unsigned, n.d. (File Artwork 130) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Sent to 'Ruth' (Kate Challis snr)
Ink figure drawing of Granny peeling apples, unsigned, n.d. (File Artwork 131) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Sent to 'Ruth' (Kate Challis snr)
Series. Red folder - Stephen Murray-Smith portfolio of prints
Series. Works by Carmel O'Connor
'Lovers': original ink drawing signed Carmel [O'Connor], inscribed "Dear Bernard as I wait for the paint to dry…" (File Artwork 173) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'The Jazz Players': origianl pen and ink drawing, signed "C O'C", 24-Apr-02 (File Artwork 174) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Good Friends': etching by Carmel O'Connor, 2005 (File Artwork 175) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Series. British satirical cartoons
'Painting, Sculpture, Architecture': original engraving with plate marks, attributed to Hogarth, n.d. (File Artwork 202) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Exotics': original engraving with plate marks, attributed to Hogarth, n.d. (File Artwork 203) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Untitled work: small handcoloured cartoon, n.d. (File Artwork 204) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
'Rapture': etching by Woodward (artist) and Rowlinson (engraver), published 21 Jan 1800 (File Artwork 205) - Elephant-Folio 75 (MS Acc10.088)
Class MS Acc13.037. Added 1 March 2013
Series. Theatre and music programs
Tourist pocket maps of European cities eg. Rome, Venice, Madrid; and Santa Fe New Mexico, 1949-1978 (File) - Box 2 (MS Acc13.037)
Handwritten note to Bernard Smith about books someone borrowed; List of typescripts of lectures given between 1956-1977 (File) - Box 3 (MS Acc13.037)
Files pertaining to Bernard Smith's role as President of Australian Academy of the Humanities, including correspondence, Council meeting minutes, submissions, proposals and symposium papers, 1973-1982 (File) - Box 4 (MS Acc13.037)
Series. The Art of Cook's Voyages
Approximately 60 steel engravings of early Australian scenes by Prout, Chevalier and others, 1980s (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc13.037)
'The Art of Cook's Voyages - Volume Three' - Photograph copies of Artworks, Catalogue 100-200 (File) - Box 7 (MS Acc13.037)
'The Art of Cook's Voyages - Volume One', First Voyage: photographic copies of artworks with annotations re size etc., 1985-1988 (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc13.037)
Packet of negative copies of arworks and old photographs from the Glebe Society (File) - Box 8 (MS Acc13.037)
'The Art of Cook's Voyages - Volume Two' - Complete set of black and white photographs with annotations re size etc., 1985-1988 (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc13.037)
'The Art of Cook's Voyages' - Third Voyage - black and white photographs of catalogue, 201-456B (File) - Box 9 (MS Acc13.037)
Maps - various travel and tourist maps of places around Australia, as well as some overseas maps including, China, Tahiti, U.S.A, etc., 1960s-1980s (File) - Box 10 (MS Acc13.037)
Photographs for 'Art of the First Fleet' miscellaneou maps and Illustrations (File) - Box 11 (MS Acc13.037)
Black and white photographs of arworks for 'European Vision and the South Pacific' (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc13.037)
Black and white photographs and colour transparencies of plates 1 - 222 for 'European Vision and the South Pacific'with annotations about size etc. (File) - Box 12 (MS Acc13.037)
Class MS Acc15.122. Added 4 November 2015, 1902 - 2011
This consignment consists of written and pictorial archives belonging to Bernard Smith including correspondence; extensive research files for his publications; drafts; photographs; artworks, including pencil sketches of Ned Kelly by Sidney Nolan; personal documents and papers relating to his wife Kate Smith. The collection also includes significant material relating to The Antipodeans group, including the minute book from their first meeting on 19 February 1959. Present were Bernard Smith, John Perceval, David Boyd, Clifton Pugh, Arthur Boyd, Charles Blackman and John Brack.