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	Margaret Preston, Australian printmaker
		Of all Australian artists, Preston is one of the most widely known, her vibrant decorative paintings and prints of distinctively Australian subjects (flowers, birds, animals and landscapes) have delighted the Australian public since they were first exhibited in the early 1920s.
		Preston was adroit at the promotion of her work and ideas.
		Margaret Preston, Australian printmakercan be seen at the National Gallery of Australia Canberr from 18 December 2004 – 10 April 2005.
	www.nga.gov.au /preston/index.cfm (1017 words)

	Encyclopedia: Margaret Preston (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1919 Margaret married the wealthy businessman William Preston, and settled in the Sydney Harbour-side suburb of Mosman.
		Margaret Preston (1875-1963), although born in Adelaide, had a long and intimate relationship with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, from her first visit to the institution at the age of twelve.
		Preston's vital, energetic and sometimes explosive personality affected all her met her: her widely proclaimed opinions on the state of art in Australia (and many other topics), and on the need to build a new 'national art' brought her both advocates and enemies.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Margaret-Preston (1516 words)

	Queensland Art Gallery - Margaret Preston
		Margaret Preston was one of the leading Modernist artists in Australia during the first half of the twentieth century.
		Along with her paintings, Preston is renowned for her stunning wood and linoblock prints, which she was inspired to produce after studying Japanese prints and printmaking techniques in Paris in 1912.
		In 1932, however, Preston moved to a property at Berowra in the hills of the Hawkesbury Basin and found inspiration in the flowers that grew in her garden, and in the surrounding bushland.
	www.qag.qld.gov.au /collection/australian_art_to_1970/margaret_preston (168 words)

	Ancestry of William Preston
		William Preston was County Lieutenant, Sheriff, and Surveyor of Fincastle County, VA 1772-1776 during which time most of the best land in Kentucky in the central Bluegrass and around the Falls of the Ohio was surveyed and granted to various individuals for services in the French and Indian War.
		Margaret Brown Preston was born in "Smithfield", Montgomery Co., VA February 23, 1784.
		Margaret Preston was born in Ireland ca 1728.
	www.geocities.com /wlabach/prestona.htm (5742 words)

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