1913

* ‘ … decorative work – it is the only thing worth aiming at for this our century – it’s really the Keynote of everything – I’m trying all I know to reduce my still-life to decorations and find it fearfully difficult. All the modern men work that way …’

(Margaret McPherson to Norman Carter, from Ile de Noirmoutier, August 18 1913. SLNSW)

Image: Margaret Preston and her dog “Little Jim” (detail) 1915 Photographer unknown, Preston archive, Art Gallery of New South Wales