Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- Australian gum blossom
- Year
- 1928
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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55.5 x 55.5cm stretcher; 69.0 x 69.0 x 7.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r. corner, blue oil "M.PRESTON". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1928
- Accession number
- 870
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (20)
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Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston, Sydney, 2005, 136, 137 (colour illus.), 145.
Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics 2005, 2005, (colour illus.). Artworks: paintings 1928
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, 36 (illus.).
Margaret Olley (Australia, b.1923, d.2011) (Author), Barry Humphries (Australia, b.1934) (Author), Deborah Hart (South Africa; United Kingdom; Australia, b.1959) (Director), Christine France (Australia) (Co-ordinator), Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from public and private collections, Sydney, 2000. Catalogue entry appears in inserted list to printed catalogue
Chris Deutscher (Australia) (Author), Australian modern masters and 19th & 20th century Australian and International Fine Art: Fine Art auction 3 & 4 May 2000, Melbourne, 2000, 98. reference to work in association with lot 61 'Australian gum blossom' painted in 1929; colour illus. of lot 61 on pg. 99
Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 39 (colour illus.), 86. cat.no. O.9
Art Gallery of South Australia (Australia, estab. 1881) (Author), Visions after light: Art in South Australia 1836-1981, Adelaide, 1981. cat.no. 139
Ian North (New Zealand; Australia, b.1945) (Author), The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980. cat.no. 24
Editor Unknown (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Domain, 1972, 100 (colour illus.).
Bernard Smith (Australia, b.1916, d.2011) (Author), Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), 100 years of Australian painting, Sydney, 1948, 9. cat.no. 48
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. 29; titled 'Australian gum blossom'
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Margaret Preston and William Dobell loan exhibition, Sydney, 1942, 7. cat.no. 9
Lionel Lindsay (Australia, b.1874, d.1961) (Author), 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 64 [Gallery No. 2]
Art in Australia [series 3, no. 29] Sep 1929, Sep 1929, (illus.). not paginated
Art in Australia [series 3, no. 27] Mar 1929, Mar 1929, (illus.). not paginated
Art in Australia [series 3, no. 26] Dec 1928, Dec 1928, (illus.). not paginated
'For the National Art Gallery.', The Sydney Morning Herald 02 Jun 1928, 02 Jun 1928, 18 (illus.).
'Art Gallery Purchase', Sun 01 Jun 1928, 01 Jun 1928, 10.
The Home: an Australian quarterly Mar 1928, Mar 1928, cover (colour illus.).
Deutscher and Hackett, Melbourne (Australia, estab. 2007) (Compilator), Deutscher and Hackett Fine art auction: Melbourne Wednesday 31 August 2011, Woollahra, Aug 2011, 44.
- Exhibition history (9)
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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.
100 years of Australian painting (1948), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Apr 1948–17 May 1948.
Visions after light, art in South Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, 18 Jul 1981–02 Aug 1981.
Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from Australian collections (2000), S.H. Ervin Gallery, 15 Jan 2000–27 Feb 2000.
Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, 07 Sep 2002–13 Oct 2002.
The art of the picture frame, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 May 2003–12 Sep 2003.
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005.
Margaret Preston retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006.
