Title
Gum blossoms
(1928)
Artist
-
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
-
Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
- Share
-
-
Exhibition history
Shown in 2 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
- 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
-
Bibliography
Referenced in 11 publications
-
Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 88. cat.no. P.19
-
Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 145 (colour illus.). cat.no. 124
-
Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 125 (colour illus.). cat.no. 124
-
Katrina Cashman., Margaret Preston in Mosman, 'Margaret Preston in Mosman', Mosman, 2002, (colour illus.). private collection; titled 'Gum Blossom'; not paginated; no catalogue numbers
-
Nicolas Draffin, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Prints & Drawings', pg. 109-124, Sydney, 1988, 123 (colour illus.).
-
Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, 'Transitions 1920s', pg. 61-150, Sydney, 2005, 88 (colour illus.), 127.
-
Josef Lebovic, Australian women printmakers, 'Foreword', pg. 2, Sydney, 1988, 12. cat.no. 94a; NOTE: this is not the AGNSW impression.
-
Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 42 (colour illus.).
-
Sydney Ure Smith and Leon Gellert (Editors), Art in Australia [series 3, no. 26], Sydney, Dec 1928, 121 (illus.). Advertisement for Grosvenor Galleries
-
Editor Unknown (Editor), The Home: an Australian quarterly, Sydney, Dec 1928, 25 (illus.).
-
Editor Unknown (Editor), The Home : an Australian quarterly, Sydney, Dec 1932, 84 (illus.). titled 'Gum blossom'
-
