Title
Bonmahon, Ireland
(circa 1916)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (circa 1916)
- Media category
- Materials used
- drypoint, printed in black ink with plate tone on cream laid paper
- Edition
- Edition unknown
- Dimensions
- 10.0 x 15.0 cm platemark; 22.2 x 27.5 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Margaret R Preston". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1964
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DA42.1964
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
Works in the collection
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About
Margaret Preston remains one of the best known Australian artist-printmakers whose colour woodblock prints, monotypes, lino- and masonite cuts, stencils and screenprints were key to her reputation as one of the most important and influential modern
artists of her generation.Preston’s first prints were a small number of etchings made while she was living in the UK in 1916, featuring small village scenes of Ireland and the Cotswolds. In 1915 she took a group of students to Bonmahon, a seaside village in the south of Ireland, where she held a summer school, and again the following year, staying for over eight months. The Gallery has three of these
early etchings in the collection.from Anne Ryan, 'Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, Sydney 2007
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Elizabeth Butel, Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Ringwood, 1985, 16 (illus.), 86. cat.no. P.1
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 2005, 60 (colour illus.), 74, 75 (colour illus.). cat.no. 1
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Canberra, 1987, 64 (colour illus.). cat.no. 1
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Ian North, The art of Margaret Preston, South Australia, 1980, 52 (illus.). cat.no. P.1
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Rose Peel, Margaret Preston, ‘Drawing connections’, pg. 253-269, Sydney, 2005, 258 (colour illus.), 268.
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Anne Ryan, Australian etchings and engravings 1880s–1930s from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 2007, 62, 62 (colour illus.). cat.no. 90
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