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Title
Aboriginal glyph
(circa 1958)
Details
Date
(circa 1958)
Materials used
colour stencil, gouache with gouache hand colouring on thin black card
Edition
Unknown edition
Dimensions
34.3 x 28.5 cm sheet (irreg.)
Signature & date
Signed l.l. within image, black ball-point pen "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
Credit
Gift of the artist 1960
Location
Not on display
Accession number
DA2.1960
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Margaret Preston
Aboriginal glyph
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Exhibition history
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Mar 1961–23 Apr 1961
Hand and eye - a survey of artists' materials and techniques: Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling Art Exhibition 1970, Various venues, 1970–1970
1988 Australian Biennale: from the Southern Cross: a view of world art c.1940-88:
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 18 May 1988–03 Jul 1988
- National Gallery of Victoria [St Kilda Road], Melbourne 04 Aug 1988–18 Sep 1988
Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Jul 1994–25 Sep 1994
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000
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 9 publications
Bibliography
Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 93. cat.no. P.71
Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 324 (colour illus.). cat.no. 391
Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 292 (colour illus.). cat.no. 391
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 (a)
Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s-1950s', pg.173-250, Sydney, 2005, 247, 248 (colour illus.).
Renée Free, Modernism 1900-1950: prints and drawings from the collection, Sydney, 1994.
Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 58 (illus.). cat.no. P.43
Alison Small, Art and Artists of Australia, Melbourne, 1981, colour illus..
Nick Waterlow (Director), The 1988 Australian Biennale: from the Southern Cross: a view of world art c.1940-88, List of works in the exhibition 276-282, Sydney, 1988, 281.