James Moore Preston

James Moore Preston (1873–1962) was an American painter and illustrator, married to fellow artist May Wilson Preston. He was one of the Ashcan School, along with his friend, William Glackens.

Early life James Moore Preston was born in Roxborough, Pennsylvania in 1873. The two couples spent summers together from 1911 to 1917 in Bellport on Long Island and took trips together to Europe. May and James traveled to France often. In New York, they frequented Cafe Francis and Mouquin's with a group of fellow artists.

Career Preston worked for the Philadelphia newspaper as an artist-reporter in 1895. He shared a studio at that time with John Sloan. After Paris, Preston moved to New York by 1900 and joined Luks, Glackens, and Wilson. He was a landscape painter and a member of the group called The Eight that included friends from New York and Philadelphia.

Preston was a co-illustrator with his wife, May Wilson Preston, on the "Our Horse" story printed in a 1910 edition of Everybody's Magazine. He exhibited in 1913 at the Armory Show and in the 1910s at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He became a successful illustrator in the 1920s; he created images for advertisements and magazines. He focused on painting after he moved to East Hampton with his wife in 1935.