Title
Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden
1950
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1950
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour stencil, gouache on thin black card
- Edition
- Unknown edition
- Dimensions
- 49.7 x 49.7 cm image; 52.8 x 51.5 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. within image, pencil "M Preston/ 50".
- Credit
- Purchased 1950
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 8481
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 8 exhibitions
Society of Artists Annual Exhibition (1950), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, 02 Sep 1950–20 Sep 1950
Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Dec 1979–28 Jan 1980
The art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 May 1980–22 Jul 1980
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Dec 1985–09 Feb 1986
Animals on paper: from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Sep 1992–05 Oct 1992
Animals on paper: from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, Dubbo, 18 Dec 1992–24 Jan 1993
Animals on paper: from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, 01 May 1993–30 May 1993
Animals on paper: from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, Grafton Regional Gallery, , 11 Jun 1993–01 Aug 1993
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
Federation: Australian art and society 1901-2001, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 08 Dec 2000–11 Feb 2001
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 15 publications
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Michael Bowden, Art-isan: studio arts for VCE units 1-4, 'Towards a personal style: Deciding on a direction', pg. 156-158, Port Melbourne, 2010, 157 (colour illus.).
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 48 (colour illus.), 92. cat.no. P.62
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 306 (colour illus.), 307. cat.no. 364
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 280 (colour illus.), 281. cat.no. 364
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Chris Dalton, From Terra Nullius to beloved companion: reimagining land in Australia, 'Australian landscape art', pg. 53-66, Underwood, 2017, 56, n.pag. (colour illus.), 61.
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Jane de Teliga, Australian images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1979, 8.
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Mervyn Horton (Editor), Art and Australia [series 5, vol. 1, no. 2], Sydney, Aug 1963, 99 (illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Animals on paper - from the Australian collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, Sydney, 1992. cat.no. 63
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John McDonald, Federation: Australian art and society 1901-2001, Canberra, 2000, 216 (colour illus.), 259.
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Kent Millard, Get acquainted with your Christian faith, Tennessee, 1996 {reprint}, inside front cover, 8 (colour illus.).
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Kent Millard, Get acquainted with your Christian faith, Tennessee, 1996, 8.
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Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 42 (illus.), 57 (illus.). cat.no. P.38
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Barry Pearce, Southern reflections: 10 contemporary Australian artists, 'An Introduction to Australian Art', pg. 34-42, Sydney, 1998, 40 (colour illus.). fig.no. 14
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Frederic Pryor, Bible Review, New York, 1995, 39 (illus.), 40.
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Geoffrey Smith, Margaret Preston, 'Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden', pg. 236, Sydney, 2005, 236, 237 (colour illus.), 239, 240.
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