Title
Flat Top Mountains
circa 1947
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- also known as Table Top Mountains, NT
- Date
- circa 1947
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour monotype
- Dimensions
- 29.2 x 32.3 cm image; 32.2 x 35.6 sight/sheet; 53.7 x 71.3 x 4.4 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Margaret Preston". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Jocelyn Plate in honour of Carl Plate 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 259.2018
- Copyright
- © Margaret Rose Preston Estate/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Margaret Preston
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About
Flat top mountains by Margaret Preston is from a group of monotypes made by Preston around the time she took a six-month tour of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia and Central Australia with the expressed aim of discovering Indigenous art, and rock painting and carving sites. Preston incorporated visual elements of Indigenous work she saw in the monotypes and stencil prints of identifiable landscapes she made following the trip.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Margaret Preston art and life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Jul 2005–23 Oct 2005
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 2 publications
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Roger Arthur Butler, The prints of Margaret Preston: a catalogue raisonné, Catalogue of works, Canberra, 2005, 268 (colour illus.) cat. 308.
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Deborah Edwards and Rose Peel, Margaret Preston: Catalogue raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, An art for Australia from Australians 1940s-50s, Sydney, 2005, 222 (colour illus.).
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