Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

ABORIGINAL ART, 1949

colour stencil on black card

24.0 x 32.0 cm

Sydney Ure Smith, Sydney
Thence by descent
Ure Smith collection, Sydney

The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 May – 22 July 1980 (another example)
Margaret Preston: Art and Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring in 2006 to: Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (label attached verso)

North, I., The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery Board of South Australia, 1980, p. 57, cat. P.37 (illus.)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1987, p. 277, cat. 358 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., Margaret Preston, ‘An art for Australia from Australians 1940s – 1950s’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, p. 249 (illus.)

The only other recorded example of this stencil, in different colours, is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra inscribed, ‘monotype’.