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An image of Banksia in jug by Margaret Preston

Margaret Preston

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

Title
Banksia in jug
Other titles:
Banksia
Angophora and banksia
Year
1952
Media category
Print
Materials used
colour stencil and gouache, printed in black ink on thin black card
Edition
Unknown edition
Dimensions

52.5 x 46.8cm image/sheet (irreg.)

Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. within image, black ink "M. PRESTON/ - 52".
Credit
Purchased 1952
Accession number
8644
Copyright
© Margaret Rose Preston Estate
Location
Not on display
Bibliography (4)

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 310, 311 (colour illus.). cat.no. 370

Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 122 (colour illus.), 301.

Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 284 (colour illus.). cat.no. 369

Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 67 (colour illus.), 93. cat.no. P.67 Note that this publication refers to this print as "Banksia".

Exhibition history (3)

Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 Dec 1985–09 Feb 1986.

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

Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, 07 Sep 2002–13 Oct 2002.