Margaret Arnott b. 6 June 1890

Also known as Margaret Oppen
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
A painter, illustrator, printmaker and writer, Margaret Arnott visited England frequently and exhibited with the Younger Group of Australian Artists in Sydney. Her granddaughter is the artist Monica Oppen.

Painter, illustrator, printmaker and writer, was born Margaret Arnott at Mayfield, NSW, on 6 June 1890. She visited England frequently and made etchings, linocuts, screenprints and woodcuts. She exhibited linocuts with the Younger Group of Australian Artists in the Education Dept Gallery, Sydney, in 1924-25. As Margaret Oppen she made bookplates, including Bookplate for Eirene Mort c.1930 (wood engraving, NLA S9651) and a linocut bookplate for Edith Potter in 1934 of butterflies with an inscription in German, 'I love the little denizens of air’ (ill. The Age of Ex Libris: Bookplates from the Library’s Collection , Baillieu Library MU 1996, n.p.). She was included in Deutscher’s Survey of Relief Prints, 1900 50 in 1978. Her granddaughter is the artist Monica Oppen.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007