Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- Sydney Bridge
- Other titles:
- The Bridge from North Shore
- Year
- (circa 1932)
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in black ink, hand coloured with gouache on cream Japanese laid paper
- Edition
- Edition unknown, hand coloured
- Dimensions
-
19.0 x 23.2cm blockmark; 22.7 x 31.9cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1964
- Accession number
- DA30.1964
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (8)
-
Caroline Mackaness (Australia) (Author), Bridging Sydney, Sydney, 2006, 253 (colour illus.).
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 169 (colour illus.). cat.no. 158
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston, Sydney, 2005, 83, 93 (colour illus.), 260.
John Slater (England) (Author), Through artists' eyes: Australian suburbs and their cities 1919-1945, Melbourne, 2004, 55, 56 (colour illus.). illus.no. 38
Katrina Cashman (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman, 2002, (colour illus.). titled 'The Bridge from the North Shore'; not paginated; no catalogue numbers
The Brett Whiteley Studio (Australia, estab. 1994) (Editor), Big blue: the painted harbour (list of works), Sydney, 1997.
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 159 (colour illus.). cat.no. 158
Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 88. cat.no. P.125; titled 'Sydney bridge'.
- Exhibition history (7)
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Big Blue - the painted harbour (1997), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 21 Jun 1997–29 Mar 1998.
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.
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.
Henri Mallard: Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 10 Feb 2011–26 Mar 2011.
Australian Modernists: Their responses to the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 10 Feb 2011–25 Mar 2011.
