BLACK SWANS, WALLIS LAKE, N.S.W., 1923
MARGARET PRESTON
woodcut
19.0 x 27.0 cm
signed with initial in image upper left: P
signed and inscribed with title below image: Black Swans Margaret Preston
Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in October 1980
Exhibition of Woodcuts, Tyrell’s Art Galleries, Sydney, 1923 (another example)
Society of Artists, An Exhibition of Etchings and Drawings, Farmer’s Exhibition Hall, Sydney, 17 – 27 November 1924, cat. 46 (as ‘Flight (woodcut)’, another example)
Margaret Preston and Thea Proctor Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, Sydney, 18 November – 2 December 1925, cat. 40 (as ‘Black Swans’, another example)
Exhibition of Woodcuts by Margaret Preston, Dunster Galleries, Adelaide, September 1926, cat. 45 (as ‘Black Swans’, another example)
Margaret Preston and William Dobell Loan Exhibition, National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19 March – 16 April 1942, cat. 1 (as ‘Swans’, another example)
The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 23 May – 22 July 1980, cat. P6 (another example)
The Prints of Margaret Preston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 8 August – 18 October 1987, cat. 8 (another example)
Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 July – 23 October 2005 and touring (another example)
Art in Australia, Sydney, third series, no. 22, December 1927 (as ‘Swans’)
Draffin, N., Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1976, p. 49 (as ‘Black Swans, Wallis Lake, c.1925’)
North, I. (ed.), The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1980, cat. P6, p. 52 (illus., another example, dated as c.1923)
Butler, R., The Prints of Margaret Preston: A Catalogue Raisonné, Australian National Gallery, Canberra and Oxford
University Press, Melbourne, 1987, cat. 26, pp. 82 (illus., another example), 83
Butel, E. (ed), Art and Australia by Margaret Preston: Selected Writings 1920 – 1950, Richmond Ventures, Sydney, third edition, 2003, p. 71 (illus.)
Edwards, D., Peel, R., and Mimmocchi, D., Margaret Preston, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005, pp. 105, 262 (illus., another example), 285