Margaret Preston (1875-1963) was a widely known Austrlian artist and she was very influential during the 1920s and 1940s because of her modernist works.
MAragret decided early in life that she wanted to become an artist. In 1888 she trained with Sydney landscaper W. Lister Lister. in 1893 she enrolled at the National Gallery of Victoria Art Schoool where she studied for over four years. After she enrolled as a student at the SOuth AUstrlian School of Design, Paintinga nd Technical Arts in Adelaide in 1898. During her studies she had been influenced by the German aesthetic tradition, which emphisisdin her later works of vegetation. TIll the end of her life Preston travelled around the world studing and discovering the other waay to produce a piece of art work.
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