Mary Macqueen
1912-1994 - Painter, printmaker and teacher. 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.
She won numerous prizes for drawings, prints and watercolours and is represented in the National Gallery of Australia , most state and regional galleries Refer: Concise Dictionary of Australian Artists edited by Robert Smith, Melbourne University Press, 1993, page 169
“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
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Fitzroy Houses 1944
Watercolour
27 x 25 cm
$1,650
Brown Lake, Stradbroke Island, Queensland 1979
Coloured pencil
29.3 x 32.3 cm
Signed with initials, titled and dated
$1,650
Four Cockatoo Studies
Pencil 17 x 12 cm each
Cockatoo Country
Colour lithograph
44.5 x 57 cm
$650
Ostrich
Pencil
28.5 x 21 cm
$950
Two Dolllar Tony
Colour Lithograph
32 x 43 cm
$850
Dance 1975
Lithograph
62 x 48.5 cm
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Lithograph
22 x 18 cm
Harbour I, 1970
Watercolour with pastel and pencil
43 x 56.5 cm
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Westerly
Colour lithograph
45 x 56 cm
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The Royal Wedding 1981
Watercolour and pencil
37.5 x 28 cm
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Parrots - Christmas Card
Lithograph
14 x 12.5 cm
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Africa 1972
Lithograph
38 x 57.5 cm
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Work Pants 1979
Colour Lithograph
49 x 34.5 cm
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Terrace, East Melbourne 1961
Hand coloured lithograph
17.5 x 27.5 cm
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