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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creator of
The Superimposed Feet
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creator of
Expulsion
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creator of
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
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creator of
Flying over the Shoalhaven River
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creator of
Self Portrait
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creator of
New South Wales Everlastings
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creator of
Aboriginal Flowers
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Courtesy of: Eva Breuer Art Dealer
Fuchsia (An Autumn Posy)
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Medium
Woodcut printed in black ink from one block; hand-coloured on tan fibrous paper 7th print

27 × 26.5cm (sight size)

 
creator of
Still-Life
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Courtesy of: Powerhouse Museum
creator of
Margaret Preston travel photograph albums
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URL
http://from.ph/371689

2009/104/5

 
creator of
Flowers
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oil
 

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  • Old Salon (exhibited at)
  • Ocean to Outback: Australian landscape painting 1850-1950 (exhibited at)
  • Coolgardie Exhibition (exhibited at)
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  • The Work of Art: Australian women writers and artists (exhibited at)
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  • With a Brush in Her Hand: Works from the Howard Hinton, Coventry and NERAM collections (exhibited at)
  • The Women's View: Australian women artists in the Bendigo Art Gallery, 1888-1995 (exhibited at)
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