Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- N.S.W. orchid
- Other titles:
- Blue orchid
NSW Orchid - Year
- (circa 1935)
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in black ink, hand coloured with gouache on ivory laid paper
- Edition
- Unknown edition, hand coloured
- Dimensions
-
19.2 x 19.2cm blockmark; 28.0 x 21.3cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed in block to print l.r., incised "MP". Signed l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1965
- Accession number
- DA30.1965
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (5)
-
Helen Campbell (Australia) (Author), Colour, rhythm, design: wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Sydney, 2010, 11 (colour illus.).
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 194, 195 (colour illus.). cat.no. 202
Look Dec 1999-Jan 2000, Dec 1999-Jan 2000, 12 (colour illus.).
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 181 (colour illus.). cat.no. 202
Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 89, 90 (colour illus.). cat.no. P.31; titled 'Blue orchid'
- Exhibition history (2)
-
Berowra visions: Margaret Preston and beyond, Macquarie University Art Gallery, 05 Sep 2005–31 Oct 2005.
Australian Collection Focus: Colour, Rhythm, Design - wood & lino cuts of the 20s & 30s, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 Mar 2010–11 Jul 2010.
