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House at Annerley Junction 1951

Accession No.
1999.001
Date Created
1951
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
50.8 x 75cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
gouache
Medium
Gouache on paper
Place Created
Brisbane
Credit Line
Purchased 1999 with funds derived from the Norah Roberts Bequest and the Helen Collings Gift

Painted soon after Margaret Cilento’s return to Australia in 1951 from studying in New York, London and Paris, House at Annerley Junction shows the influence of her exposure to the postwar international artistic climate. The results of Cilento’s studies overseas can be seen in a consolidation of the more radical ideas of the abstract expressionists — concerning art as a means of self-extension and its reduction to gesture and colour — together with her own preference for recording her surroundings.

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© Margaret Cilento Estate

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An oil painting of a landscape with a winding river
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Margaret Cilento: House at Annerley Junction

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Kenneth Macqueen / Australia NSW 1897 - 1960 / Harvesting scene (detail) c.1956 / Watercolour over pencil on wove paper / Purchased 1956 / Collection: QAGOMA / © QAGOMA / A watercolour landscape depicting rolling fields in shades of green and yellow, with hills in the background shadowed by clouds.

‘Watercolour in Queensland’

Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

Works installed for 'Under a Modern Sun', Gallery 4, QAG, August 2025 / © The artists / Photograph: N Umek, QAGOMA

'Under a Modern Sun'

Aug 2025 - Jan 2026

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