Margaret Preston is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Margaret Preston as Australian artist (1875-1963).
Margaret Preston was born at Adelaide in 1875. Her recorded nationality is Australia. She trained at National Gallery of Victoria Art School and Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
She worked as artist, painter and graphic artist.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Australia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Margaret Preston died in 1963, aged 88. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
