Margaret Cilento b. 1923

Also known as Phyllis Margaret Cilento, Margaret Cilento-Maslen
  • Artist
Painter and printmaker. Resident of Queensland, New South Wales, America and Europe. Underhill firmly believes that Cilento should be acknowledged as introducing Abstract Expressionism to Brisbane.
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Citations

  • Abicair, Shirley (1962), 'Tales of Tumbarumba’.

  • Cliento, Ruth (1961), 'Moreton Bay Adventure’.

  • (1990), 'Margaret Cilento’, Queensland University catalogue, Brisbane, Biography adapted largely from Nancy D.H. Underhill.

  • Roger Butler (1991), 'Australian Printmakers in America 1900-1950’, Australian National Gallery 1991-92 (is there a catalogue? included Horace Brodsky, Margaret Cilento, Robert Emerson Curtis, Frank Nankivell – who had 3 oils in the 1913 Armoury Show – and Anne Wienholt).

  • France, Christine (1991), 'New Directions 1952-1962’, Lewers Bequest & Penrith Regional Art Gallery catalogue, Penrith, NSW.

  • Germaine, Max (1991), 'A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia’, Roseville East, NSW.

  • McCulloch, Alan/McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW.

  • Muir, Marcie (1992), 'Australian Children’s Books: A Bibliography’, Melbourne, Vic., vol.1.

  • Cilento, Jeanne-Marie; Maslen, Geoff (1 December 2006), 'She celebrated the human spirit : Margaret Cilento-Maslen, 1923-2006’, Sydney Morning Herald, p 14.

See also

  • 'Ad in Art & Australia 39/2 (2001) illustrated with her ink Design for Circus Mural 1951'.
  • 'Margaret Cilento, Self Portrait in Grey 1947, oil on canvas (Holmes à Court collection)'.

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Related collections
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld. (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld. (collected in)