Selected Bibliography
(An extensive bibliography appears in John Rigby – Art and Life.)
Art in Queensland, 1859-1959
Vida Lahey, The Jacaranda Press for the Queensland National Art Gallery, 1959
The Australian Women’s Weekly,October 1, 1958
(special coverage of Women’s Weekly international portrait prize)
Encyclopedia of Australian Art,
Alan McCulloch, Hutchinson, London, 1st edition, 1968
(also later editions)
12 Australian Paintings in the Art Gallery of New South Wales;
P. Milton, Art Folios, Volume One, Heineman, Melbourne, 1972
White on Black: The Australian Aborigine Portrayed in Art,
Geoffrey Dutton, MacMillan, Melbourne, 1974
The Australian Landscape and its Artists,
Elwyn Lynn, Bay Books, Sydney, 1977
Artists and Galleries, Australia and New Zealand,
Germain, Lansdowne Editions, Sydney, 1979
Queensland Art Gallery: Selected Works,
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1982
Arts Queensland,
Vol. 1, Issue 1, D. Seibert, 1984
Molvig: The Lost Antipodean,
Betty Churcher, Allen Lane and Penguin, Melbourne, 1984
Catalogue of Oil Paintings from the permanent collection of the
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery,
Barbara Chapman, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 1984
Downs Artists, A Changing Landscape,
Noni Durack and Pamela King, Darling Downs Institute Press, 1985
John Rigby,
Interviewed by Barbara Blackman,
Oral History Section, National Library of Australia, May/June 1985
Tropical Visions,
J. Millington, University of Queensland Press, 1987
Portraits of Australia: The Doug Moran Portrait Prize Collection1988
Artists and Aspects Of The Contemporary Art Society, Queensland Branch,
Helen Fridemanis, Boolarong Publications, 1991.
Uncommon Australians: Towards An Australian Portrait Gallery,
Julian Faigan, Art Exhibitions Australia Ltd, 1992
Portraits of Australia: The Doug Moran National Portrait Thirty Finalists1994
A Time Remembered: Art In Brisbane 1950 to 1975,
Glenn R. Cooke, Queensland Art Gallery Publication, 1995
Australian Artist,
By John T. Rigby – series of articles – Feb, Mar, Apr 1995
Portraits of Australia: The Doug Moran Portrait Prize 1996
Sun, Sea and Shadows: the Redcliffe Art Contest and Art Society 1957 to 1996
Stella Currin, Scarborough, Queensland, 1998
Portraits of Australia: The Doug Moran Portrait Prize 1998
The World of Antiques & Art
(‘The Young Rigby Boy’ – first of a two-part series)
August 2003-January 2004, Glenn R. Cooke
The World of Antiques & Art
(‘John Rigby, a career revealed’ – second of a two-part series)
February 2004-August 2004, Glenn R. Cooke
Wildlife Australia Magazine
John T. Rigby, Spring 2005, Vol. 42 No. 3
(Numerous newspaper and magazine critiques, profiles and news
items spanning more than 70 years have not been listed.)
