# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/may-wilson-preston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:11:31.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/may-wilson-preston"
name: "May Wilson Preston"
slug: "may-wilson-preston"
description: "Mary (May) Wilson Watkins Preston was an American illustrator of books and magazines and an impressionist painter. 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."
tagline: "American artist (1873-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/May_Wilson_Preston%2C_by_1910.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1873-08-11"
deathDate: "1949-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.043478260869565
  historical:           8.071238666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6203964/"
    handle:    "nm6203964"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "May Wilson Preston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump