Margaret Preston

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Margaret Preston (1936)

Margaret Preston (Margaret Rose McPherson) (* 1875 in Adelaide , † May 28, 1963 in Mosman , Sydney ) was a well-known Australian artist .

Life

She was the eldest daughter of David McPherson, a marine engineer, and Prudance Cleverton (née Lyle). The family lived in Sydney until 1885 . In 1888 the artist began training with artist William Lister Lister and in 1893 she began studying at the National Gallery School of Design in Melbourne .

In 1894 she moved to Adelaide and in 1896 she returned to Melbourne . There she studied at the National Gallery School of Painting with Bernard Hall. In 1898 she studied painting and technical arts with Harry Gill at the Adeleide School of Design . Thanks to her mother's inheritance, she opened a studio in 1903 and traveled to Europe. There she took classes at the Munich Art School for Women. She then went to Paris where she was accepted at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français . Since then she has developed a type of art that was very decorative or abstract , based on the European painting styles and Japanese ukiyo-e .

In 1920 she married William Preston. During this time she worked on a concept for national art and became a commentator on cultural design issues and on modern art in Australia. In the 1890s she was very successful as a painter because of her extraordinary modern works in which she introduced the Aboriginal motifs.

Exhibitions

  • 1914 Exhibits at the Royal Academy and the New English Art Club, London
  • 1915 Society of Women Artists exhibition, London
  • 1925 Thea Proctor and Margaret Preston joint exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries and selected tour
  • 1942 William Dobell and Margaret Preston joint exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • 1946 Australian Women Painters, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • 1975 Australian Women Artists: 1840-1940, Ewing and George Paterson Galleries and selected tour
  • 1980 The Art of Margaret Preston, Art Gallery of South Australia
  • 1985–86 Margaret Preston: The Art of Constant Rearrangement, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • 1987 Art and the West, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • 1988 The Great Australian Art Exhibition, touring
  • 1988 The Face of Australia, touring
  • 1993 A Century of Australian Women Artists: 1840–1940, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne
  • 2000 Australian Icons, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • 2000–01 Modern Australian Women: 1925–1945, Art Gallery of Western Australia , National Gallery of Australia , SH Ervin Gallery and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
  • 2001 Federation: Australian Art and Society: 1901-2001, National Gallery of Australia
  • 2002 Margaret Preston in Mosman, Mosman Art Gallery
  • 2012: A brief history of collapses ; dOCUMENTA (13) , Kassel

Awards

  • 1929 Art Gallery of New South Wales for your self-portrait
  • 1937 Paris International Exhibition, silver medal

Collections

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Preston, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preston, Margaret Rose (full name); McPherson, Margaret Rose (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide , Australia
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1963
Place of death Mosman , Sydney