Title
Japanese submarine exhibition
(1942)
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Australia
- Date
- (1942)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 43.2 x 50.8 cm stretcher; 42.7 x 50.5 cm sight; 57.7 x 65.5 x 6.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner, blue oil "M PREST(illeg.)". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr W.G. Preston the artist's widower 1967
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- OA30.1967
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
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Places
Where the work was made
Sydney
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Exhibition history
Shown in 9 exhibitions
Contemporary Art Society: Fourth annual exhibition, Contemporary Art Society (Victoria), , 08 Sep 1942 -
Australia at war (1946-47), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1946–1947
Annual Spring Exhibition (1957), Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 21 Aug 1957–30 Aug 1957
Acquisitions 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Mar 1968–01 Apr 1968
The Artist and the City, Art Museum Armidale, Armidale, 01 Nov 1983–04 Nov 1983
The Artist and the City, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, 08 Nov 1983–11 Nov 1983
The Artist and the City, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Manly, 15 Nov 1983–20 Nov 1983
The Artist and the City, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Nov 1983–18 Dec 1983
Japanese Submarine Anniversary Exhibition, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 31 May 1992–31 Jan 1993
Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, 07 Sep 2002–13 Oct 2002
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
Home front: wartime Sydney 1939–45, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 31 Mar 2012–09 Sep 2012
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Bibliography
Referenced in 13 publications
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 61 (colour illus.), 86. cat.no. O.17
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Katrina Cashman, Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman, 2002.
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William Dargie, Daily Mirror, 'Painters and painting', pg. 3, Sydney, 22 Aug 1957, 3. The painting was referenced as 'Benelong Pt. Submarine Exhibition'.
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Deborah Edwards and Rose Peel, Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, Sydney, 2005, (colour illus.). Artworks: paintings 1942.
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Deborah Edwards, Margaret Preston, ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s-1950s', pg.173-250, Sydney, 2005, 181, 182, 183, 179 (colour illus.).
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Grosvenor Gallery, London, Annual Spring Exhibition, London, 1957. cat.no. 20. Note: painting was priced at 35 gns. The painting was listed as 'Benelong Pt. Submarine Exhibition (Site of New Opera House)'.
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Brian Ladd and Alan Krell, The Artist & the City, Sydney, 1983, 10. cat.no. 18
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Humphrey McQueen, The black swan of trespass: the emergence of Modernist painting in Australia to 1944, Sydney, 1979, (illus.), 159. plate no. 29
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Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 11, 50 (illus.). cat.no. O.39
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Catherine Speck, Beyond the battlefield: Women artists of the two world wars, London, 2014, 159 (colour illus.), 188, 277.
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Catherine Speck, Painting ghosts: Australian women artists in wartime, Melbourne, 2004, 106, 107 (colour illus.), 231. illus.no. 59
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Fourth Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Art Society, Sydney, 1942. cat.no. 19. Note: painting was priced at 15 gns.
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1967 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1967, 17-18. cat.no. 18
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