May Wilson Preston
American artist (1873-1949) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 75
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.
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![May Wilson Preston, Dejeuner, circa 1910, oil on canvas, Barnes Foundation[10]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/May_Wilson_Preston%2C_Dejeuner%2C_circa_1910%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_The_Barnes_Foundation.jpg/330px-May_Wilson_Preston%2C_Dejeuner%2C_circa_1910%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_The_Barnes_Foundation.jpg)
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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.
