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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Citations

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Seivl, Isobel (1988), 'Preston, Margaret Rose’.

    http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/preston-margaret-rose-8106

  • Seivl, Isobel; North, Ian; and McQueen, Humphrey (1980), ''Margaret Preston,’ ADB, The Art of Margaret Preston’, 11, Adelaide, Australia.

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Burke, Janine (1980), 'Australian Women Artists 1840-1940’, Collingwood, Vic.

  • Burn, Ian (1991), 'Dialogue: Writing in Art History’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Butel, Elizabeth (1986), 'Margaret Preston’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Butler, Roger (1987), 'The Prints of Margaret Preston’, National Gallery of Australia catalogue, Melbourne, Vic.

  • McQueen, Humphrey (1979), 'The Black Swan of Trespass’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Megaw, J.V.S.; and Megaw, M. Ruth (1992), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Preston, Margaret (5 December 1924), 'Art for crafts: Aboriginal art artfully applied’, Home.

  • Stephen, Ann (1980), 'Margaret Preston’s second coming,’, Art Network, 2, spring.

  • Seivl, Isobel (1986), 'Margaret Preston’, MA thesis University of Sydney.

  • (1928), 'Society of Artists Annual Exhibition Catalogue’, (cat.154), Sydney, NSW.

  • ''Insurance on Paintings 1942’, Margaret Preston Papers’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Burn, Ian; and Stephen, Ann (1992), 'Namatjira’s white mask’, in Hardy, Jane (Ed.) The Heritage of Namatjira.

  • Nicholls, Christine (2000), 'From appreciation to appropriation : indigenous influences and images in Australian visual art’, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA.

  • Baddeley, Claire (ed.) (1999), 'Motif & meaning : Aboriginal influences in Australian art, 1930-1970’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Vic.

  • Edwards, Deborah; with Peel, Rose; and Mimmocchi, Denise (2005), 'Margaret Preston : Art and life’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Preston, Margaret (1930), ''Away with poker-worked kookaburras and gumleaves’, Sunday [Daily] Pictorial’, 6 April, Sydney.

  • Preston, Margaret (1930), ''The application of Aboriginal designs’, Art in Australia’, 3rd series no. 31, March.

  • Preston, Margaret (1925), ''The indigenous art of Australia’, Art in Australia’, 3rd series no. 11, March.

  • Preston, Margaret (1933), 'An Exhibition 1933’, Manuscripts 4 (February 1933).

  • Information sourced from Eagle, Mary.

See also

  • 'Margaret Preston, Self Portrait 1930, oil on canvas (AGNSW)'.
  • 'Heritage chapter 7, plate 303: Aboriginal Flowers 1928, oil on canvas, 53.6 x 45.8 cm, AGSA'.
  • Powerhouse Museum, 'Margaret Preston travel photograph albums', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW. http://from.ph/371689

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