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An image of Banksia by Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

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

Title
Banksia
Year
1938
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

53.2 x 42.6cm stretcher; 70.5 x 60.2 x 7.5cm frame

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner, pencil "Margaret Preston/ 1938".
Credit
Gift of Society of Artists Sydney Ure Smith Memorial 1950
Accession number
8473
Copyright
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (8)

Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston, Sydney, 2005, 154 (colour illus.).

Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics 2005, 2005, (colour illus.). Artworks: paintings 1938.

Paula Dredge (Author), Margaret Sawicki (Australia) (Author), Steven Miller (Australia) (Author), Lindsay Parker (Australia, b.1939, d.2003) (Author), S.A. Parker Framing Works, Domain, 2004, 52 (illus.).

Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 45 (colour illus.), 86. cat.no. P.13

Australia National Journal 01 May 1941, 01 May 1941, 55 (illus.).

Australian Academy of Art 1939, Sydney, 1939, 10. possibly cat.no. 80

Art in Australia [series 3, no. 76] Nov 1938, Nov 1938, 64 (illus.).

Society of Artists (Australia, estab. 1895, closed 1965), Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Sydney, 1938. not paginated; possibly cat.no. 79 titled 'Australian still life'; priced 30 gns