Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

DRY RIVER CROSSING, N.T., 1946

colour monotype

20.5 x 25.5 cm

signed and inscribed with title below image: Dry River Crossing N.T. Margaret Preston

Mrs Marcus Sheldon, by 1949
Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 5 November 1986, lot 18
The Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne

Drawings, Sculpture Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society (Fourth State Exhibition), Education Department’s Art Gallery, Sydney, 6 – 23 March 1948, cat. 23 (as ‘Dry River Bed, Flinders Ranges’)
Pictures from the ‘Back Room’, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 25 January – 4 February 1956, cat. 23 (as ‘Dry River Bed Crossing, N.T.’)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring (dated as ‘c.1947’)

Ure Smith, S. (ed.), Margaret Preston’s Monotypes, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1949, p. 66 (as ‘Dry River Bed’)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 314, p. 250 (as ‘Dry river bed, Flinders Ranges, 1946’)
Edwards, D., Peel, R., and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 231 (illus.), 232, 285 (as ‘c.1947’)
Margaret Preston Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, monotypes and ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, CD-ROM compiled by Mimmocchi, D., with Edwards, D., and Peel, R. (dated as ‘c.1947’)