Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century, selected and edited by noted Australian art historian and publisher Lou Klepac.  

Published by The Beagle Press, Sydney, 2000.  

A substantial and extensively illustrated survey of major Australian painters of the twentieth century, combining high-quality colour reproductions with essays by leading Australian art historians and critics.  

The book covers 19 major Australian artists:  Margaret Preston, Ian Fairweather, Grace Cossington Smith, Godfrey Miller, Lloyd Rees, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Albert Tucker, Donald Friend, James Gleeson, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, John Brack, Jeffrey Smart, Fred Williams, John Olsen, William Robinson, Colin Lanceley and Brett Whiteley.  

Contributors include Barry Pearce, John McDonald, Lou Klepac, Sasha Grishin, Bruce James, Gavin Fry, Deborah Hart and Peter Pinson. Each featured artist is allocated approximately twelve pages of reproductions together with an essay by a recognised authority on Australian art.

The front dust-jacket artwork reproduces Sidney Nolan’s First Class Marksman (1946).  

An excellent reference volume for collectors of Australian art and particularly useful for readers interested in the major modern Australian painters represented by Nolan, Boyd, Whiteley, Smart, Williams, Preston, Tucker, Drysdale and others.