photo-engravings by Hartland & Hyde in the J. J. Hilder Watercolourist exhibition catalogue in 1916. Fine illustrations continued to be a profuse and celebrated feature of the magazine. While his friends the Lindsays and Hans Heysen were conservative, Ure Smith encouraged progress in Australian art, supported the Contemporary Group in Sydney, the Melbourne Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art (1939) and imported works by Matisse and Derain for Society of Artists exhibitions. Basil Burdett, who in 1925 established Macquarie Galleries at 19 Bligh Street Sydney, was a frequent contributor and associate editor of the magazine in the mid-to-late 1920s. Some editions of Art in Australia were specifically devoted to individual artists, or had lengthy articles on featured artists. In addition, content was enhanced with the work of designers and illustrators, including Douglas Annand who drew for Sydney Ure Smith's publications, the Home, Art in Australia and the Australian National Journal between 1935 and 1939. Though devoted solely to the visual arts, a literary supplement to Art in Australia was proposed in 1917 and prepared during 1918, but was abandoned despite pressure from Norman Lindsay. The magazine did published some poetry and fiction during the 1920s including that of Lindsay, who promoted his conservative views, and of his son, Jack, Kenneth Slessor and Hugh McCrae, and each had individual numbers devoted to their works, while other contributors included Zora Cross, Dorothea Mackellar, Furnley Maurice, and Dowell O'Reilly. In 1924 Art in Australia held a short story competition, won by Katharine Susannah Prichard's The Grey Horse and though she contributed more, from the 1930s literary works were reserved for the companion magazine, The Home, a more regular publisher of prose and poetry in the Art in Australia group. Cessation Retired in 1938, Ure Smith and Gellert were replaced by Kenneth Wilkinson and Peter Bellew was appointed in 1941 for the magazine's last eighteen months. These later editors were more sympathetic toward modernist art and they published poetry, including that of Max Harris and Alister Kershaw. Art in Australia folded in August 1942. Legacy Art in Australia was succeeded eleven years later by Art & Australia published quarterly by Sydney Ure Smith's son Sam from May 1963. It follows the high standard of reproduction of its forerunner and is still in print. See also Australian Art: a Monthly Magazine & Journal References External links Online copies of Art in Australia at