Margaret Pilkington was a British wood-engraver who was active at the beginning of the twentieth century.
14 Facts About Margaret Pilkington
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Margaret Pilkington was a pupil of Noel Rooke at the Central School of Art and Design and was a member of the Society of Wood Engravers and the Red Rose Guild.
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Margaret Pilkington became more and more involved with the Gallery, running it for a period, and was an honorary director for over 20 years.
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Margaret Pilkington spent a great deal of time with her sister Dorothy, neither of whom married.
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Margaret Pilkington was always worried about the disparity between her wealth and the economic distress that she saw around her.
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Margaret Pilkington exhibited in the first exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920, and continued to do so until 1931.
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Margaret Pilkington became a member of the society in 1921.
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Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, wrote about her in his introduction to the book: Miss Gribble and Miss Margaret Pilkington are among the other women artists who practise wood engraving with zeal and success.
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Margaret Pilkington produced some 110 wood engravings, 41 of which were for the four books that she illustrated, three written by her father, Lawrence Pilkington, the last by a friend.
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Margaret Pilkington's work is represented in several national collections, including the Central School and the Whitworth.
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Margaret Pilkington's output is quite limited when compared to many of her contemporaries, and her importance lies not in her production or artistic merit, but in her encouragement to and patronage of her fellow practitioners.
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Margaret Pilkington was Secretary of the Society of Wood Engravers from 1924 and revived the moribund society in 1949.
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Margaret Pilkington bought regularly at the annual exhibitions of the society and donated the wood engravings to the Whitworth.
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Margaret Pilkington's influence is best summed up in her obituary by Trenchard Cox, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum: Margaret Pilkington's generous outlook on human affairs, her wide knowledge and discriminating taste, were reflected in every part of the museum which she made so much her own.