Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

THE BRIDGE FROM NORTH SHORE, c.1932

also known as ‘SYDNEY BRIDGE’
hand-coloured woodcut

19.0 x 23.0 cm

signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: 3rd print Bridge from N. Shore Margaret Preston

probably: Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne

Sydney Harbour Bridge Celebrations, Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 21 March – 3 April 1932, cat. 145 (another example)
Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc. by Margaret Preston, The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, September 1933, cat. 24 (another example, as ‘Bridge from North Shore’)
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986, cat. P.25 (another example, as ‘Sydney Bridge’)
Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September – 13 October 2002 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring (another example, as ‘Sydney Bridge’)
Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 July – 7 October 2013, (another example)
O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith. Making Modernism, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 12 October 2016 – 19 February 2017 and touring, cat. 51b (another example, as ‘Sydney Bridge’)

Butel, E., Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, exhibition catalogue, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1985, p. 88
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 158, p. 159 (illus., another example)
Edwards, D., Peel, R., and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 83, 93 (illus., another example), 260, 286
Edwards, D., and Mimmocchi, D. (eds.), Sydney Moderns: Art for a New World, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2013, pp. 107 (illus., another example), 315
O’Keefe, Preston, Cossington Smith. Making Modernism, exhibition catalogue, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp. 127 (illus., another example), 196 (illus., another example)

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane