Margaret Preston b. 29 April 1875

Also known as Margaret Rose McPherson, Rose McPherson, Margaret Rose Macpherson, Margaret Rose Preston, Margaret Macpherson
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Ceramist)
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made landscapes, and painted an introspective self-portrait. Her hand-coloured woodcuts and linocuts are a modernist interpretation of what is often thought of as traditional women's subject matter.
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New South Wales Society of Artists
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associate of
Society of Women Artists
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See alsos [<ExternalResource: 'Margaret Preston, Self Portrait 1930, oil on canvas (AGNSW)'.>, <ExternalResource: 'Heritage chapter 7, plate 303: Aboriginal Flowers 1928, oil on canvas, 53.6 x 45.8 cm, AGSA'.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, 'Margaret Preston travel photograph albums', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>] [<ExternalResource: 'Margaret Preston, Self Portrait 1930, oil on canvas (AGNSW)'.>, <ExternalResource: 'Heritage chapter 7, plate 303: Aboriginal Flowers 1928, oil on canvas, 53.6 x 45.8 cm, AGSA'.>]
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