Margaret Preston is arguably the most significant artist Ure Smith, Australian arts publisher, promoted in regards to the development of Australian art. He clearly admired Preston’s paintings and... Read full biography
Margaret Preston is arguably the most significant artist Ure Smith, Australian arts publisher, promoted in regards to the development of Australian art. He clearly admired Preston’s paintings and lent three from his fine collection (including Native Flowers and Australian Wild Flowers) to the... Read full biography
Margaret Preston is arguably the most significant artist Ure Smith, Australian arts publisher, promoted in regards to the development of Australian art. He clearly admired Preston’s paintings and lent three from his fine collection (including Native Flowers and Australian Wild Flowers) to the Margaret Preston and William Dobell Loan Exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1942 and kept this group now on offer until his death. Three Ure Smith publications were exclusively devoted to... Read full biography
Margaret Preston is arguably the most significant artist Ure Smith, Australian arts publisher, promoted in regards to the development of Australian art. He clearly admired Preston’s paintings and lent three from his fine collection (including Native Flowers and Australian Wild Flowers) to the Margaret Preston and William Dobell Loan Exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1942 and kept this group now on offer until his death. Three Ure Smith publications were exclusively devoted to Preston’s work: the ‘Margaret Preston Number’ of Art in Australia in 1927, Recent Paintings by Margaret Preston in 1929 and Margaret Preston’s Monotypes in 1949. In 1875 when Margaret Rose McPherson was born in Adelaide, Captain Cook had landed in... Read full biography
Margaret Preston is arguably the most significant artist Ure Smith, Australian arts publisher, promoted in regards to the development of Australian art. He clearly admired Preston’s paintings and lent three from his fine collection (including Native Flowers and Australian Wild Flowers) to the Margaret Preston and William Dobell Loan Exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1942 and kept this group now on offer until his death. Three Ure Smith publications were exclusively devoted to Preston’s work: the ‘Margaret Preston Number’ of Art in Australia in 1927, Recent Paintings by Margaret Preston in 1929 and Margaret Preston’s Monotypes in 1949. In 1875 when Margaret Rose McPherson was born in Adelaide, Captain Cook had landed in Sydney just over 100 years before and Queen Victoria was mid-way through her reign. Unt... Read full biography
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