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An image of Banksia cobs by Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

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

Title
Banksia cobs
Year
1933
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

45.8 x 53.2cm stretcher; 66.0 x 57.5cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, pencil "M.P. 33".
Credit
Gift of Mr Howard Sherrard 1982
Accession number
188.1982
Copyright
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (8)

Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 39-40, 45, 86. cat.no. O.11

Roger Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 177 (colour illus.).

Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'Berowra 1930s', pg.151-172, Sydney, 2005, 151, 150 (colour illus.), 154, 253, 260, 261, 260.

Deborah Edwards and Rose Peel, Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics 2005, Domain, 2005, (colour illus.). Artworks: paintings 1933.

Humphrey McQueen, The black swan of trespass: the emergence of Modernist painting in Australia to 1944, Sydney, 1979, 148, 153.

National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Margaret Preston and William Dobell loan exhibition 1942, Sydney, 1942. cat.no. 35

Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 8.

Society of Artists, Society of Artists Annual Exhibition 1933, Sydney, 1933. cat.no. 145

Exhibition history (3)

Margaret Preston and William Dobell loan exhibition (1942), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 Mar 1942–16 Apr 1942

Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000

Margaret Preston retrospective: