Title

Margaret Preston: Australian printmaker.

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (18 December 2004 – 10 April 2005)

Date

(2004 – 2005)

Summary

Single artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT). Prints.

Curator

Roger Butler

Documentation

Catalogue

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Margaret Preston’s prints produced between 1916 and 1956 show an artist moving away from European traditions to a unique art based on the land and experience of the Asia-Pacific region. Her work of the 1920s is energetically decorative and popular; that produced in the 1950s – when she was in her late 70s – is profound. [Gallery media, 2004].