The curator, Deborah Edwards, and co-curator on the project, conservator Rose Peel, have spent five years locating paintings for this exhibition. In addition to around 100 paintings and 80 prints, the exhibition includes pottery, textiles, illustrative work, photographs and documents. The Art Gallery of New South Wales is organising the first major retrospective of Margaret Preston's work. Her cosmopolitan paintings and prints of the 1920s, 30s and 40s epitomise not only one of the most distinctive eras in the history of Australian art, but also one of the country's most aesthetically innovative periods. Margaret Preston (1875-1963) is one of Australia's most celebrated artists, and is certainly Australia's most famous woman artist. I am trying to find one form that will suggest Australia. "Australia is crying out for a national culture and it is only with the close bond between the artist and the people that there can be a national art.
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