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Margaret Preston

(Australia, England, France 29 Apr 1875–28 May 1963)

Title

Japanese submarine exhibition

Place of origin

Sydney → New South Wales → Australia

Year

(1942)

Media category

Painting

Materials used

oil on canvas

Dimensions

43.2 x 50.8cm stretcher; 42.7 x 50.5cm sight; 57.7 x 65.5 x 6.0cm frame

Signature & date

Signed l.r. corner, blue oil "M PREST(illeg.)". Not dated.

Credit

Gift of Mr W.G. Preston the artist's widower 1967

Accession number

OA30.1967

Copyright

© Margaret Rose Preston Estate

Location

Not on display

Bibliography (12)

Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 61 (colour illus.), 86. cat.no. O.17

Katrina Cashman, Margaret Preston in Mosman 2002, Mosman, 2002.

William Dargie, Daily Mirror 22 Aug 1957, 'Painters and painting', pg. 3, Sydney, 22 Aug 1957, 3. The painting was referenced as 'Benelong Pt. Submarine Exhibition'.

Deborah Edwards and Rose Peel, Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics 2005, Domain, 2005, (colour illus.). Artworks: paintings 1942.

Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s-1950s', pg.173-250, Sydney, 2005, 181, 182, 183, 179 (colour illus.).

Grosvenor Gallery, London, Annual Spring Exhibition 1957, London, 1957. cat.no. 20. Note: painting was priced at 35 gns. The painting was listed as 'Benelong Pt. Submarine Exhibition (Site of New Opera House)'.

Brian Ladd and Alan Krell, The Artist & the City 1983, Domain, 1983, 10. cat.no. 18

Humphrey McQueen, The black swan of trespass: the emergence of Modernist painting in Australia to 1944, Sydney, 1979, (illus.), 159. plate no. 29

Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 11, 50 (illus.). cat.no. O.39

Catherine Speck, Painting ghosts: Australian women artists in wartime, Melbourne, 2004, 106, 107 (colour illus.), 231. illus.no. 59

Editor Unknown (Editor), 1967 Acquisitions 1967, Sydney, 1967, 17-18. cat.no. 18

Fourth Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Art Society 1942, Sydney, 1942. cat.no. 19. Note: painting was priced at 15 gns.

Exhibition history (8)

Australia at war (1946-47), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1946–1947

Annual Spring Exhibition (1957):

• Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney 21 Aug 1957–30 Aug 1957
• Grosvenor Gallery, Sydney

Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Mar 1968–01 Apr 1968

The Artist and the City:

• Art Museum Armidale, Armidale 01 Nov 1983–04 Nov 1983
• Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth 08 Nov 1983–11 Nov 1983
• Manly Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney 15 Nov 1983–20 Nov 1983
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 26 Nov 1983–18 Dec 1983

Japanese Submarine Anniversary Exhibition, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 31 May 1992–31 Jan 1993

Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, 07 Sep 2002–13 Oct 2002

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

Home front: wartime Sydney 1939–45, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 31 Mar 2012–09 Sep 2012