Title
Aboriginal design, with Sturt's Pea
1943
Artist
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Details
- Alternative title
- Aboriginal design, with Sturt's Desert Pea
- Date
- 1943
- Media category
- 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
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate. Licensed by Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
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
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 60 (colour illus.), 90. cat.no. P.41
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 219 (colour illus.). cat.no. 239
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 205 (colour illus.). cat.no. 239
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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
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Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s-1950s', pg.173-250, Sydney, 2005, 214, 216 (colour illus.), 259.
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