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An image of Rose and banksia by Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

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

Title
Rose and banksia
Year
1936
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

55.7 x 46.0cm

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. corner, pencil "M. PRESTON/ 36".
Credit
Purchased 1936
Accession number
6373
Copyright
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (9)

Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics 2005, 2005, (colour illus.). Artworks: paintings 1936.

Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 44 (colour illus.), 86. cat.no. O.12

National Council of Women (Australia), An exhibition of women's achievements in the arts, New South Wales, 1960. cat.no. 32; Kindly lent by the AGNSW

Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Margaret Preston survey (Nine paintings and thirteen prints by Margaret Preston), Sydney, 1959. cat.no. 12

National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Margaret Preston (Australia; England; France, b.1875, d.1963) (Author), Exhibition of Australian women painters, Domain, 1946. cat.no. 28; titled 'Rose and banksia'

National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Margaret Preston and William Dobell loan exhibition, Sydney, 1942. no. 18; not paginated

The Sydney Morning Herald 05 Feb 1938, 05 Feb 1938, 35 (illus.).

Lionel Lindsay (Australia, b.1874, d.1961) (Author), 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938, (illus.). cat.no. 60

Blaxland Gallery (Australia, estab. 1929, closed 1957) (Author), (Contemporary Group Exhibition), Sydney, 1936. no. 77; not paginated; priced 20 guineas

Exhibition history (8)

Contemporary Group Exhibition, Blaxland Gallery, 20 Jul 1936–31 Jul 1936.

150 years of Australian art (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Jan 1938–25 Apr 1938.

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

Exhibition of Australian women painters, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 1946–18 Aug 1946.

Margaret Preston survey (Nine paintings and thirteen prints by Margaret Preston), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Jun 1959–16 Sep 1959.

Women's achievements in the arts, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 31 Aug 1960–09 Sep 1960.

Margaret Preston (1964), Newcastle City Art Gallery, 04 Apr 1964–30 Apr 1964.

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