Art in Australia was an Australian art magazine that was published between 1916 and 1942. Founding Art in Australia, was first issued in 1916. It was edited by Sydney Ure Smith, graphic artist and director of the advertising agency, Smith and Julius; Bert Stevens, who remained editor of The Lone Hand; and Charles Lloyd Jones, of the David Jones emporium family; and was published by Angus & Robertson in 1917–1918; Art in Australia Ltd in the years 1918–1934; and in its final decade (1934–1942) was published by the Sydney Morning Herald. From 1922 Leon Gellert took over editorship from Stevens and Jones, continuing in the position with Ure Smith until both retired in 1938. Production standards were exacting and the editors oversaw photography of art and its printed reproduction to the highest quality available. In the first series a Deluxe edition, limited to 40 copies, with 30 for sale, each contained an engraver's proof print (a reproduction) signed by the artist. Publication was semi-annual 1916–1920, quarterly 1921–1930, bimonthly 1930–1933, and back to quarterly 1934–1942. It came out in four series: No.1. 1916 – No.11. 1921 New Series Vol.1. No.1. (February 1922) – Vol.1. No.2 (May 1922) Third Series No.1. (August 1922) – No.81 (November 1940) Series 4, No.1. (March 1941) – No.6 (June 1942) Editors 1916–1938 Sydney Ure Smith 1916–1922 Bertram Stevens 1916–1921 Charles Lloyd Jones 1922–1938 Leon Gellert 1938–1940 Kenneth Wilkinson 1941–1942 Peter Bellew Publishing company Incorporated in 1921, the Art in Australia company published several other magazines, including the Australian National Journal and The Home, which often balanced any shortfall by Art in Australia, which was expensive to produce, often depending on funds from Jones; and also costly to purchase, with a newsstand price of seven shillings and sixpence (1919); 12 shillings and sixpence (1920, 1927-1929); six shillings (a value of nearly A$22 in 2021) in 1921-1922; three shillings and sixpence (1930-1934); and five shillings (1934-1942), the latter equivalent to A$19 in 2021. Few artists were able to afford it. Fairfax press purchased The Home in 1934. Content Trained in art by Julian Ashton, and favouring members of the Society of Artists, Sydney, Ure Smith was a keen proponent of Australian art and to some extent its early modernists, though he was not sympathetic to abstraction, and his attitudes were influential on the content of Art in Australia, which sprang from his success in publishing the popular, high-quality