Margaret Stones b. 28 August 1920

Also known as Elsie Margaret Stones
  • Artist
Awarded MBE 1977 and AM, 1988 "For service to art as an illustrator of botanical specimens".
exhibited at
Margaret Stones: botanical artist
Date
2000
Place
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Description

Principal contributing artist to Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, producing more than 400 watercolours. Her most important project during the 1960s and 1970s was the illustrations for The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, and from 1975 her work on the Flora of Louisiana project.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery annual report 1999-2000; http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0295b.htm (02/12/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Watercolour
exhibited at
Botanical drawings by Margaret Stones
Date
1976
Place
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
Description

Principal contributing artist to Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, producing more than 400 watercolours. The artists most important project during the 1960s and 1970s was the illustrations for The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, and from 1975 her work on the Flora of Louisiana project.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery annual report 1975-1976; http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0295b.htm (02/12/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Painting, Drawing
exhibited at
Margaret Stones retrospective
Date
1975
Place
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic
Description

From 1958 she was the principal contributing artist to Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, producing more than 400 watercolours. Her most important project during the 1960s and 1970s was the illustrations for The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, and from 1975 her work on the Flora of Louisiana project.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter University of Melbourne Exhibition archive; http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0295b.htm (02/12/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting