Margaret Preston

Fuchsia and balsam 1928
hand-coloured woodcut
Geelong Gallery
Purchased 1982

Geelong Gallery’s version of Preston’s dazzlingly beautiful Fuchsia and balsam is the first proof of a proposed edition of fifty.

The work was reproduced in Art in Australia and The Home in 1928, and on the cover of Woman’s World magazine in March 1929. This latter publication also included the article ‘How to frame your woodcuts’ by Marjorie Pryor.