Name

Marguerite Mahood

Other names

CALLAWAY, Marguerite Henriette (née)

MAHOOD, Dr.

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

29 July 1901

Birth place

Richmond, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Death date

14 October 1989

Death Place

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Occupations

Activist | Art teacher | Artist (commercial) | Artist (painter) | Ceramic artist | Decorative / design artist | Drawer | Historian | Illustrator | Potter | Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC). Linocuts, Screenprints

NGA IRN

20194

Context

Australia

Biography

Marguerite Hood

Marguerite Hood was born in Melbourne in 1901. She studied drawing at the National Gallery School under McCubbin and Mcinness, and applied art at the Working Man’s College. She first exhibited linocuts with the Victorian Artists Society in April 1925. In recent years she has again worked in the medium. From 1947-51 she ran a screenprinting buisness.

Hood is best known as a cartoonist, illustrator and ceramic artist,  and her book The Loaded Line, Australian Political caricature 1788 1901, which was published by Melbourne University Press, 1973.

Mahood died in Melbourne, in 1989.

© Roger Butler, 1981, revised 2009.
Published in Melbourne Woodcuts & Linocuts of the 1920s & 1930s, exhibition catalogue, Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1981.

 

Last Updated

16 Dec 2020