For Surrealist artist (1905–1986), see May Wilson.
May Wilson Preston
Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, May Wilson Preston, by 1910
Born
May Wilson
(1873-08-11)August 11, 1873
New York, New York
Died
May 18, 1949(1949-05-18) (aged 75)
East Hampton, New York
Nationality
American
Education
Art Students League of New York, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase
Known for
Illustrations
Spouses
Thomas Henry Watkins (1898-his death)
James Moore Preston (1903-1949), her death
May Wilson Preston, The Confidantes, 1907, Barnes Foundation
Mary (May) Wilson Watkins Preston (August 11, 1873 – May 18, 1949) was an American illustrator of books and magazines and an impressionist painter.[1] She had an interest in art beginning in her teenage years, but her parents sent her to Oberlin College hoping that she would develop another interest. After three years, and at the urging of one of her teachers, Preston's parents allowed her to return to New York and attend the Art Students League. She then studied in Paris with James Whistler and next at the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase.
Following the death of her first husband, Thomas Henry Watkins, Preston embarked on a career as an illustrator to support herself. She socialized and exhibited with artists of the Ashcan School and married one of the group, James Moore Preston, in 1903. They traveled to Europe together, summered on Long Island, and co-illustrated a magazine story. She became a successful illustrator for magazines, like Harper's Bazaar and The Saturday Evening Post, and was a successful book illustrator. Considered one of the top women illustrators between 1900 and 1940, Preston was one of the few female members and exhibitors of the Society of Illustrators, having been admitted March 29, 1904, after peers Florence Scovel Shinn, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, and Jessie Willcox Smith. Like them, she was only an Associate Member since full membership was not allowed for women until the 1920s.[2] She exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show and won a medal at the Panama–Pacific Exposition in 1915. Preston was one of the major suffrage artists. Her works are in a number of museum collections. She played herself a chapter of the film serial Our Mutual Girl that was shown in theaters in 1915.
^Chris Petteys (1985). Dictionary of Women Artists. G K Hill & Co. publishers. ISBN 978-0-8161-8456-9.
^Michele H. Bogart, Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art, University of Chicago Press: 1995
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