Title
The children's circus, Taronga Zoo
(circa 1944-circa 1945)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Children's corner at the zoo
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- (circa 1944-circa 1945)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 40.5 cm stretcher; 55.3 x 55.3 x 5.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, white oil "M PRESTON/ 4 (illeg.)".
- Credit
- Bequest of Enid Lewis 1984
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 288.1984
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1945), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 24 Aug 1945–12 Sep 1945
Suburb, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 15 Apr 2000–23 Jul 2000
Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, 07 Sep 2002–13 Oct 2002
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005
Margaret Preston retrospective, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 12 Nov 2005–29 Jan 2006
Margaret Preston retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 May 2006–13 Aug 2006
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Bibliography
Referenced in 7 publications
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 61 (colour illus.), 86. cat.no. O.18
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Katrina Cashman, Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman, 2002.
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Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s-1950s', pg.173-250, Sydney, 2005, 185, 181 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards and Rose Peel, Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, Sydney, 2005, (colour illus.). Artworks: paintings 1944.
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Peter Emmett, Sydney: metropolis, suburb, harbour, 'Suburb', pg. 71-72, Glebe, 2000, 93, 94 (colour illus.).
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Peter Emmett, Sydney surburb: MOS exhibition guide, Sydney, 2000.
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New South Wales Society of Artists, Society of Artists Catalogue, Sydney, 1945. cat.no. 74. Note: painting was priced at 15 gns.
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