About Margaret Preston

Margaret Rose Preston was an Australian painter, printmaker and writer on art who is regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20th century. In her quest to foster an Australian "national art", she was also one of the first non-Indigenous Australian artists to use Aboriginal motifs in her work. Her works are distinctively signed MP.

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Occupation: artist, painter, graphic artist

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Margaret Preston

Australian artist (1875-1963)

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