- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0257
Preston, Margaret Rose
- Birth name McPherson, Margaret Rose
- Born 29 April 1875, Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Died 28 May 1963, Mosman Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Occupation Artist
Summary
Margaret Preston was the first woman to be commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to produce a self-portrait. In 1996 one of her hand-coloured woodcuts of a Western Australian banksia from 1929 was commemorated on an Australia Day postage stamp.
Details
Margaret Rose Mcpherson studied in Melbourne and Adelaide before travelling overseas. In 1919 she married Bill Preston. As a successful teacher and exhibitor, she developed a reputation for her highly decorative and colourful paintings and woodcuts of Australian fauna and flora at a time when European flowers were still considered the norm for gardens and paintings.
Archival resources
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Preston, Margaret (1875-1963), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-481573
- Journal Article
- Book
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Edited Book
- 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20071105022623/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/78644/20071105-1315/www.200australianwomen.com/index.html
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Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders