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Bridge from North Shore c.1932

Accession No.
2003.063
Date Created
c.1932
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Australian Art
Dimensions A
20.3 x 24.5cm (sight)
Edition
A.P.
Media Category
Print
Secondary Media Category
relief
Medium
Woodcut, hand-coloured on paper
Place Created
Sydney, NSW
Credit Line
Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Margaret Preston is renowned for her woodcuts and linocuts, which she was inspired to make after studying Japanese prints and printmaking techniques at the Musée Guimet, Paris, in 1912. This print celebrates the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge; completed in 1932, it stood as a powerful symbol of modernity and provided a nationwide sense of achievement. Poet Rex Ingamells celebrated the print in verse in 1944:

Red-roofed two-storey house and red-roofed church,
its spire a flame of red. Between the two
the backyards bathe in golden sun. But search
one inch to find the Harbour’s joy of blue.

Exquisite wood-cut! Ah, superb, bright midge!
Our Nation’s history in the stride of Bridge!

 

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