Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963)

GUM BLOSSOM, 1928

hand-coloured woodcut

27.5 x 26.5 cm (image)
33.0 x 27.5 cm (sheet)

edition: 22nd copy
signed, numbered and inscribed with title below image: 22 copy Gum blossom Margaret Preston 

Private collection, Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, Brisbane

Christmas Exhibition of Batik and Woodcuts, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, December 1928 (another example, as ‘Gum Blossoms’)
Exhibition by Leading Members of the Australian Society of Artists, Fine Arts Salon, Wellington, New Zealand, 4 July – 2 August 1930, cat. 13 (another example)
Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 December 1985 – 9 February 1986 (another example)
Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 September – 13 October 2002 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue)
Margaret Preston retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005; and touring (another example)
brick vase clay cup jug, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 July 2023 – 7 January 2024 (another example)

Ure Smith, S., and Gellert, L. (eds), Art in Australia, Sydney, 3rd Series, no. 26, December 1928, p. 121 (illus. as ‘Gum Blossoms’, another example)
Ure Smith, S., and Gellert, L. (eds), The Home: an Australian Quarterly, Sydney, vol. 9, no. 12, 1 December 1928, p. 25 (illus. as ‘Gum Blossoms’, another example)
Ure Smith, S., and Gellert, L. (eds), The Home: an Australian Quarterly, Sydney, vol. 13, no. 12, 1 December 1932, p. 84 (illus., another example)
Radford, R. (ed.), Outlines of Australian Printmaking: Prints of Australian from the Last Third of the 18th Century until the Present Time, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria, 1976, n.p.
Butel, M., Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Penguin Books & Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1985, cat. P.19, cover (illus., another example), pp. 32, 88
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 124, pp. 135 (illus. as ‘Gum blossoms’, another example), 335
Lebovic, J., Australian women printmakers, Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 1988, cat. 94a, pp. 2, 12 (another example)
Edwards, D., Peel, R. and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 88 (illus., another example), 127, 286

Other examples of this print are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria