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Authors: Meg Stewart
With John Maund, president of the Australian Watercolour Institute from 1938â45.
Douglas Stewart
(oil), 1941. This was painted while he was writing his verse-play
Ned Kelly
.
With Meg as a baby. I taught myself to draw from memory while I was baby-minding my new daughter.
Meg in the city.
Back home after the trip to Europe in 1954 with Meg and Douglas. I missed our new home at St Ives, and the space and light of Australia.
Early Spring
(watercolour), 1968, painted at St Ives. Flowers look best in a vase straight from the gardens where they have been picked.
Moon Over Ku-ring-gai
(watercolour), 1970s, a painting much loved by Douglas.
Douglas at work in his writing room at St Ives, 1970s.
At work in my studio at St Ives, 1970s.
In the garden at St Ives with Douglas and our Tonkinese cat, Fang, 1970.
With Meg in the garden at St Ives, 1988.
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Autobiography of My Mother
9781742747484
Published by Random House Australia, 2012
Copyright © Meg Stewart 2007
The moral right of the author has been asserted.
A Vintage Book
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First published in Australia by Penguin Books Australia, 1985
This Vintage edition first published in 2007
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry
Stewart, Meg, 1948â.
Autobiography of my mother.
Rev. ed.
ISBN 978 1 74166 823 0.
1. Coen, Margaret, 1909â1993. 2. Painters â Australia â Biography. 3. Watercolorists â Australia â Biography. I. Title.
759.994
Cover photograph of Margaret Coen, 1930, from the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Stewart family collection of photographs
Photograph of Meg Stewart by Jessica Hromas
Cover design by Christabella Designs
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