Sam Byrne: Folk Painter of the Silver City by Moore, Ross - 1985

Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books Australia, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. On the title page;" This book belongs to Hugh Sawrey" and in capitals along the fore-edge just "HUGH SAWREY". A near fine copy in like jacket. (From Wikipedia: Hugh Sawrey CBE (born in Forest Glen, Queensland 1919, died Benalla Victoria, 1999) was an Australian artist and founder of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, Longreach. Sawrey was an artist whose prolific output of paintings,and drawings of the Australian landscape and its people contributed in a profound way to the preserving of the memory of times and places in Australian history that were in danger of being overlooked and lost to posterity. Throughout his long career, he experienced firsthand events that shaped Australian identity in the 20th century and documented through his work many of the characters that lived in this period.)