Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

FLANNEL FLOWERS ETC., c.1928

hand-coloured woodcut

27.5 x 27.5 cm

signed with initials in image lower left: MP
signed and inscribed with title below image: flannel flowers etc woodcut Margaret Preston

Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in June 1974

Forty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, Art Society of Tasmania, Town Hall, Hobart, 14 – 23 February 1928, cat. 136 (another example)
Margaret Preston Woodblocks, Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, 1936, cat. 14 (another example)
Exhibition of Etchings, Woodcuts etc., The Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 9 – 24 December 1936, cat. 147 (another example)
Survey of Australian Relief Prints 1900 – 1950, Deutscher Galleries, Melbourne, 13 April – 5 May 1978, cat. 27 (another example, as ‘Flannel Flowers etc., c.1926’, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 21)
Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986, cat. P.33 (another example)
The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 38 (another example)

Art in Australia, Sydey, Third series, no. 66, February 1937 (illus. front cover, another example)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 123, p. 134 (illus., another example)
Butel, E., Margaret Preston: the art of constant rearrangement, exhibition catalogue, Penguin Books, Victoria, 1985, p. 89

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Victoria