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An image of Wheel flower by Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)

Title
Wheel flower
Other titles:
Wheelflower
Year
(circa 1929)
Media category
Print
Materials used
wood engraving, black ink, hand coloured in gouache on brown mulberry paper
Edition
2nd copy
Dimensions

44.1 x 44.6cm blockmark; 56.0 x 45.5cm sheet

Signature & date
Signed in block to print l.l., incised "MP". Signed l.r., pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1929
Accession number
176
Copyright
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (20)

Andrew Sayers (Australia, b.1957) (Author), Sarah Engledow (Australia) (Author), Barry Humphries (Australia, b.1934) (Author), The world of Thea Proctor, Canberra, 2005, 51.

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 58 (colour illus., detail), 59, 154, 155 (colour illus.). cat.no. 140

Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston, Sydney, 2005, 94, 95 (colour illus.), 82, 132-133, 252 (colour illus., woodblock), 262.

'Evolution of a movement: the Arts & Crafts in Australia' by Kristyna Olsen Mizelle and Jim Kane, pg. 40-45., Style 1900: the magazine of the turn-of-the-century design Nov 2001, Nov 2001, front cover (colour illus., detail), 40 (colour illus.), 41.

'Australian Prints from the Collection 139 of the best' by Hendrik Kolenberg, pg. 26-27., Look Nov 1998, Nov 1998, 26.

Exhibitions events - Art Gallery of New South Wales Nov 1998-Jan 1999, Nov 1998-Jan 1999, 14 (colour illus.).

Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 6 (illus.), 7 (colour illus.), 61, 63 (colour illus.). cat.no. 50

Kirsty Grant (Author), Jason Smith (Australia, b.1966) (Author), In relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, Melbourne, 1997, 29, 30 (colour illus.). Collection of National Gallery of Victoria

Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 121.

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 144, 145 (colour illus.). cat.no. 140

Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 32 (colour illus.), 88. cat.no. P.21

Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 120, 121 (colour illus.).

Ian North (New Zealand; Australia, b.1945) (Author), The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, cover (colour illus.), 22 (colour illus.), 54 (illus.). cat.no. P.18

Clem Lloyd (Author), Peter Sekuless (Author), Australia's national collections, North Ryde, 1980, 260 (illus.).

Jane de Teliga (Australia) (Author), Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1979, 8.

Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Author), Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, South Melbourne, 1976, 36 (colour illus.).

Dennis Colsey (Australia) (Author), Hand and eye - a survey of artists materials and techniques: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1970, Sydney, 1969, (illus.). cat.no. 90

Lionel Lindsay (Australia, b.1874, d.1961) (Author), 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 507. This work is titled 'Wheel flowers'.

William Moore (Australia, b.1868, d.1937) (Author), The story of Australian art from the earliest known art of the continent to the art of today (Vol. 1), Sydney, 1934, (illus.). opposite pg. 123; titled 'Stenocarpus'

Art in Australia [series 3, no. 29] Sep 1929, Sep 1929, front cover (colour illus.).

Exhibition history (5)

Hand and eye - a survey of artists' materials and techniques: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1970, Various venues, 1970–1970.

Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Dec 1979–28 Jan 1980.

Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999.

Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, 07 Sep 2002–13 Oct 2002.

Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005.