Hampton
Mary Macqueen
1912-1994 - Painter, printmaker and teacher.
“Macqueen’s art, I’m tempted to say, is basically an art of sympathy, for what it most vividly demonstrates is how enchanting the world may be when it is looked at with amusement and affection.” The Age, Gary Catalano, 27th August 1986. Review of Mary Macqueen exhibition and book launch at Charles Nodrum Gallery, Richmond, 1986
Born in Carlton in 1912. In 1939 she began painting in watercolours, studied drawing under George Bell 1946-47 and printmaking at RMIT 1956-58, where she later taught drawing and printmaking. In 1945 she held the first of many solo exhibitions.She was essentially a graphic artist, mainly producing works on paper, with a strong foundation in drawing but exploiting the decorative possibilities of colour. Her favoured print medium was lithography and her preferred subjects animals, birds and landscape.
Mary Macqueen won numerous prizes for drawings, prints and watercolours. She is represented in most State and Regional galleries including 280 works represented in the National Gallery of Australia. Refer: Concise Dictionary of Australian Artists edited by Robert Smith, Melbourne University Press, 1993, page 169
Mary Macqueen
Landscape with Boats and Jetties
Watercolour, gouache and pencil
30.6 x 45 cm
$2,200 framed
Mary Macqueen
Sheep Grazing, Pirron Yallock 1966
Watercolour and pastel
27 x 26.8 cm
$1,350
Mary Macqueen
Eagle
Gouache, pastel and coloured pencil on tinted paper
23 x 39.5 cm
$850
Mary Macqueen
Fitzroy Houses 1944
Watercolour
27 x 25 cm
$1,650
Mary Macqueen
Brown Lake, Stradbroke Island, Queensland 1979
Coloured pencil
29.3 x 32.3 cm
Signed with initials, titled and dated
$1,650
