Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- Flowers in jug
- Other titles:
- Jug of flowers
- Year
- (circa 1929)
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in black ink, hand coloured in gouache on thin cream laid Japanese paper
- Edition
- from an edition of 125?, hand coloured
- Dimensions
-
28.0 x 20.5cm blockmark; 33.3 x 24.8cm sheet [creased at top]
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1975
- Accession number
- 246.1975
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
In 1913 Preston declared that 'Decorative work' was the 'only thing worth aiming for'. In pursuit of this aim in which abstract relationships were all-important, she arranged the flowers so that they radiate to create a strong design. Both Preston and Proctor advocated the display of wood and lino cuts in the modern home. Each copy of the book 'Margaret Preston: recent paintings', edited by Sydney Ure Smith and
published by Art in Australia in 1929, was accompanied by a woodcut of either this image or of 'Mosman bridge' c. 1927 for that purpose.- Bibliography (4)
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Helen Campbell (Australia) (Author), Colour, rhythm, design: wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Sydney, 2010, 11 (colour illus.).
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 152, 153 (colour illus.). cat.no. 137
Katrina Cashman (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman, 2002, (colour illus.). not paginated; no catalogue numbers
Sydney Ure Smith (Australia, b.1887, d.1949), Margaret Preston: recent paintings, 1929, Sydney, 1929, (colour illus.). plate no. 6; titled 'Jug of flowers'
- Exhibition history (1)
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Australian Collection Focus: Colour, Rhythm, Design - wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 Mar 2010–11 Jul 2010.
