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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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'.

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