Description
Margaret Hannah Olley AC (24 June 1923 – 26 July 2011) was an Australian painter. During her lifetime, she held over ninety solo exhibitions. Australian artist Margaret Olley exhibited talent as a painter in high school. By age 24, she had won the Mosman Art Prize and had her first solo exhibition at Macquarie Galleries the following year. Margaret Olley’s paintings were post-impressionist, and Henri Matisse greatly inspired her.
Margaret Olley’s artwork of brightly coloured floral arrangements, fruit, and lived-in home interiors display her skill with oil paints; she also did a more sombre series in the ’60s of portraits of Aboriginal women. Margaret Olley’s paintings were exhibited frequently, and she worked on new still-life oil paintings until she died in 2011.
The provenance of this 1962 oil painting on board is direct from the artist to fellow artist Ray Crooke and directly from the Crooke family collection.
Margret Olley’s painting of Susan was painted in 1962, a favourite subject to paint, and there are several paintings of her from her studio underneath ‘Farndon’, her family home in Brisbane’s Hill End (now West End); Margaret Olley completed a series of portraits of Indigenous women and men. Susan with Flowers 1962 is a significant work from this group that hangs in the GOMA the 1963 Finney’s Centenary Art Prize, judged by the Queensland Art Gallery’s then-director Laurie Thomas.
Artwork located in Port Douglas
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