Title
Gum blossoms
(1928)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Gum blossom
- Date
- (1928)
- Media category
- Materials used
- woodcut, printed in black ink, hand coloured in gouache on thin cream laid paper
- Edition
- 21st proof from an unknown edition, hand coloured
- Dimensions
- 27.4 x 26.3 cm blockmark (irreg.); 38.7 x 30.6 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. beneath blockmark, pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1964
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DA35.1964
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Dec 1985–09 Feb 1986
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005
Margaret Preston retrospective, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 12 Nov 2005–29 Jan 2006
Margaret Preston retrospective, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 18 Feb 2006–07 May 2006
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26 May 2006–13 Aug 2006
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 11 publications
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 88. cat.no. P.19
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 145 (colour illus.). cat.no. 124
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 125 (colour illus.). cat.no. 124
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Katrina Cashman., Margaret Preston in Mosman, 'Margaret Preston in Mosman', Mosman, 2002, (colour illus.). private collection; titled 'Gum Blossom'; not paginated; no catalogue numbers
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Nicolas Draffin, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Prints & Drawings', pg. 109-124, Sydney, 1988, 123 (colour illus.).
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Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'Transitions 1920s', pg. 61-150, Sydney, 2005, 88 (colour illus.), 127.
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Josef Lebovic, Australian women printmakers, 'Foreword', pg. 2, Sydney, 1988, 12. cat.no. 94a; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 42 (colour illus.).
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Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 26], Sydney, Dec 1928, 121 (illus.). Advertisement for Grosvenor Galleries
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Home: an Australian quarterly, Sydney, Dec 1928, 25 (illus.).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), The Home : an Australian quarterly, Sydney, Dec 1932, 84 (illus.). titled 'Gum blossom'
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