Margaret Preston
(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)
- Title
- Bonmahon, Ireland
- Year
- (circa 1916)
- Media category
- Materials used
- drypoint, printed in black ink with plate tone on cream laid paper
- Edition
- Edition unknown
- Dimensions
-
10.0 x 15.0cm platemark; 22.2 x 27.5cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r., pencil "Margaret R Preston". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1964
- Accession number
- DA42.1964
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Margaret Preston remains one of the best known Australian artist-printmakers whose colour woodblock prints, monotypes, lino- and masonite cuts, stencils and screenprints were key to her reputation as one of the most important and influential modern
artists of her generation.Preston’s first prints were a small number of etchings made while she was living in the UK in 1916, featuring small village scenes of Ireland and the Cotswolds. In 1915 she took a group of students to Bonmahon, a seaside village in the south of Ireland, where she held a summer school, and again the following year, staying for over eight months. The Gallery has three of these
early etchings in the collection.from Anne Ryan, 'Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, Sydney 2007
- Bibliography (6)
-
Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 2007, 62, 62 (colour illus.). cat.no. 90
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 60 (colour illus.), 74, 75 (colour illus.). cat.no. 1
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Margaret Preston, Sydney, 2005, 258 (colour illus.), 268.
Roger Butler (Australia, b.1948) (Author), Dana Rowan (Editor), Judith Thorne (Editor), The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 64 (colour illus.). cat.no. 1
Elizabeth Butel (Author), Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Researcher), Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 16 (illus.), 86. cat.no. P.1
Ian North (New Zealand; Australia, b.1945) (Author), The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 52 (illus.). cat.no. P.1
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005.
