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
But other than this aboriginal style what was it she spent the majority of her life drawing? You'll just have to turn the page to find out.
She finally tied the knot with George Preston (her maiden name being McPherson) in Australia in 1919, and at that time, aged forty-four (the exact middle of her life) she had been studying, teaching, and experimenting with her art for about thirty years. Now her finances had become very secure and she was able to put a lot more time into her art instead of her constant working for a living. That's when her greatest and most commonly appreciated works started to come into place, in the decade between the wars. Her prints and paintings were equally impressive, her audiences loved them and they were described as "Invigorating, e
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