Collection
Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- Everlasting flowers
- Other titles:
- New South Wales everlasting flowers
- Year
- circa 1929
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, black ink, hand coloured with gouache and black ink on thin white Japanese paper
- Edition
- 2nd copy from an unknown edition, hand coloured
- Dimensions
-
43.2 x 37.6cm blockmark; 49.7 x 41.2cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed in block to print lower c., incised "MP.". Signed l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1964
- Accession number
- DA37.1964
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (7)
-
Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 88 (colour illus.). cat.no. P.22; titled 'New South Wales Everlasting flowers'
Roger Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 147 (colour illus.). cat.no. 142
Roger Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 157 (colour illus.). cat.no. 142
Nicholas Draffin, Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, South Melbourne, 1976, 37 (colour illus.). titled 'Native Everlastings, NSW (early 1930s)'
Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'Transitions 1920s', pg. 61-150, Sydney, 2005, 89 (colour illus.).
Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 24 (colour illus.), 54 (illus.). cat.no. P.20; titled 'New South Wales Everlasting flowers'
Sydney Ure Smith, Margaret Preston: recent paintings, 1929, Sydney, 1929, (illus.). plate no. 2
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Margaret Preston retrospective:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005
- Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006
