Title

Marguerite Mahood born 1901.

Author

Butler, Roger.

Source

Butler, Roger. Melbourne woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s. Ballarat, Victoria: Ballarat Fine Art Gallery in conjunction with the Australian Directors Council, 1981.

Details

page [35].

Publication date

1981

ISBN

0-642-89501-5

Type

Dictionary entry

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

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
 

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