• Title
  Green Stockings / Margaret Coen
• Creator
  Margaret Coen, 1909-1993
• Call number
  ML 1647
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  probably 1962
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  9679640
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on board - 32 x 23 cm
  
• Collection history
  Email correspondence with sitter, Meg Stewart, suggests this work may have been exhibited in a group show of the Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society in 1965.
• Scope and Content
  Oil on board painting of Margaret Coen's daughter, Meg Stewart, aged about 14 years, in green stockings and a white party dress made for her by Coen for the premiere of the stageplay, Shipwreck, on 6 February 1962, written by her father, Douglas Stewart. Meg is shown sitting in a large teal green armchair, talking on a Bakelite telephone, with the family cat, Snowball, in her lap, and her pair of shoes beside her on the floor.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: Margaret Coen
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed "COEN" in lower right corner on recto. Inscribed "Margaret Coen, Green Stockings, 2 Banool Ave, St Ives: 5 guineas' on verso.
• Date note
  
  Date based on information from sitter, Meg Stewart.
• Subject
  Suburban life--New South Wales--Sydney--Pictorial works.
  Children--New South Wales--Pictorial works.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21118505

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