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Title
Aboriginal design, with Sturt's Pea
1943
Details
Alternative title
Aboriginal design, with Sturt's Desert Pea
Date
1943
Materials used
colour masonite cut, hand coloured in gouache on buff wove paper
Edition
Unknown edition, printed in colour
Dimensions
30.4x 38.4 cm blockmark; 32.0 x 41.0 cm sheet
Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. within blockmark, ink "M Preston 1943".
Signed and dated l.r. corner, pencil "Margaret (illeg.) 43".
Credit
Purchased 1943
Location
Not on display
Accession number
7325
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Margaret Preston
Aboriginal design, with Sturt's Pea
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Contemporary Art Society Fifth Annual Exhibition (1943), Vickery's Galleries, Sydney, 29 Jun 1943–19 Jul 1943
Hand and eye - a survey of artists' materials and techniques: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1970, Various venues, 1970–1970
Margaret Preston retrospective:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005
- Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne 12 Nov 2005–29 Jan 2006
- Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 26 May 2006–13 Aug 2006
Referenced in 5 publications
Bibliography
Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 60 (colour illus.), 90. cat.no. P.41
Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 219 (colour illus.). cat.no. 239
Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 205 (colour illus.). cat.no. 239
Dennis Colsey, Hand and eye - a survey of artists materials and techniques: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1970, Sydney, 1969, (illus.). cat.no. 54
Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s-1950s', pg.173-250, Sydney, 2005, 214, 216 (colour illus.), 259.