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
Birth date
29 April 1875
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
Initial Record Data Source
  • Heritage with additions

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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'.>]
Related works
  • The Superimposed Feet (creator of)
  • Expulsion (creator of)
  • Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (creator of)
  • Flying over the Shoalhaven River (creator of)
  • Self Portrait (creator of)
  • New South Wales Everlastings (creator of)
  • Aboriginal Flowers (creator of)
  • Fuchsia (An Autumn Posy) (None)
  • Still-Life (creator of)
  • Margaret Preston travel photograph albums (creator of)
  • The Superimposed Feet (creator of)
  • Expulsion (creator of)
  • Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (creator of)
  • Flying over the Shoalhaven River (creator of)
  • Self Portrait (creator of)
  • New South Wales Everlastings (creator of)
  • Aboriginal Flowers (creator of)
  • Fuchsia (An Autumn Posy) (None)
  • Still-Life (creator of)