MARGARET PRESTON ART AND LIFE
EXHIBITION
ARTIST
EVENTS
GARDEN TOURS
EDUCATION
ORDER CATALOGUE
Art Gallery of New South Wales 29 July to 23 October 2005
ARTIST
biography
‘in her own words’
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
‘in her own words’

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)

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