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Bowl of plums

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Meg Padgham

1974

Overview

Still life oil painting on Masonite of a bowl of plums

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Registration number

cwa-org-7-148

Item type

Themes

Material

Width

36.6000 cm

Height or length

31.8000 cm

Contextual Information

Meg Padgham studied at East Sydney Technical College and the Meldrum School. She worked as a textile designer in Sydney before coming to Canberra in 1943 to paint Wallace Anderson's scale model of Jordan in World War I for the Australian War Memorial. After moving to Melbourne, she studied portrait painting under Sir William Dargie, and later exhibited works in the Archibald and Portia Geach competitions. After suffering a stroke, she taught herself to paint with her left hand. She has continued to exhibit her work in Perth, where she has lived since 1971.

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Place made

Perth
Western Australia
Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Well provenanced

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