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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Name
Margaret Preston
Also known as:
  • Margaret Rose McPherson
  • Rose McPherson
  • Margaret Rose Macpherson
  • Margaret Rose Preston
  • Margaret Macpherson
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Ceramist)
Other Occupation
  • Teacher (ANZSIC code: 8102)
Birth date
29 April 1875
Birth place
Port Adelaide, South Australia
Death date
28 May 1963
Death place
Mosman, Sydney, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1884 - c.1963
Residence
  • 1939 - 1963 Mosman, Sydney, NSW
  • 1932 - 1939 Berowra, Sydney, NSW
  • 1920 - 1932 Mosman, Sydney, NSW
  • 1913 - 1914 Brittany, France
  • 1913 - 1914 Paris, France
  • 1912 - 1913 London, England, UK
  • 1907 - 1912 Adelaide, SA
  • 1904 - 1907 Europe
  • 1896 - 1898 Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1898 - 1904 Adelaide, SA
  • 1894 - 1896 Adelaide, SA
  • 1893 - 1894 Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1884 - 1893 Sydney, NSW
  • 1875 - 1884 Port Adelaide, SA
Training
  • 1884 W. Lister Lister, Sydney, NSW
  • Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, Camberwell, London, England, UK
  • Munich Government Art School for Women, Germany
  • 1896 - 1898 National Gallery School, Melbourne, Vic.
  • School of Design, Adelaide, SA
  • 1893 - 1894 National Gallery School, Melbourne, Vic.
Cultural Heritage
  • Quaker
  • Scottish
Languages
  • English
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Ruth (1992), Melbourne, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Preston, Margaret (5 December 1924), 'Art for crafts: Aboriginal art artfully applied', Home.>, <ExternalResource: Stephen, Ann (1980), 'Margaret Preston's second coming,', Art Network, 2, spring.>, <ExternalResource: Seivl, Isobel (1986), 'Margaret Preston', MA thesis University of Sydney.>, <ExternalResource: (1928), 'Society of Artists Annual Exhibition Catalogue', (cat.154), Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: ''Insurance on Paintings 1942', Margaret Preston Papers', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Burn, Ian; and Stephen, Ann (1992), 'Namatjira's white mask', in Hardy, Jane (Ed.) The Heritage of Namatjira.>, <ExternalResource: Nicholls, Christine (2000), 'From appreciation to appropriation : indigenous influences and images in Australian visual art', Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Baddeley, Claire (ed.) (1999), 'Motif & meaning : Aboriginal influences in Australian art, 1930-1970', Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Edwards, Deborah; with Peel, Rose; and Mimmocchi, Denise (2005), 'Margaret Preston : Art and life', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Preston, Margaret (1930), ''Away with poker-worked kookaburras and gumleaves', Sunday [Daily] Pictorial', 6 April, Sydney.>, <ExternalResource: Preston, Margaret (1930), ''The application of Aboriginal designs', Art in Australia', 3rd series no. 31, March.>, <ExternalResource: Preston, Margaret (1925), ''The indigenous art of Australia', Art in Australia', 3rd series no. 11, March.>, <ExternalResource: Preston, Margaret (1933), 'An Exhibition 1933', Manuscripts 4 (February 1933).>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Eagle, Mary.>]