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/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
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
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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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