Margaret Preston history
In a period of time where many of Australia’s artists were woman, a time confused with war’s that had been and war’s that were to come, a time when art was pure and true one particular female artist rose above the rest, and her name was Margaret Preston. Born in Adelaide in early 1875 she lived a long eighty eight years, and in those years provided some of the greatest and most unique art Australia had ever seen. She moved around a lot in her childhood, jumping from city to city along the eastern coast but at the fairly young age of nineteen was suddenly brought back to the city of her birth to be by her sailor father as illness lead to his death in 1894. It was back in Adelaide where she took up her major art training at the Adelaide school of design, and also
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