Edith E. Cusack Australia, France, 1865?-1937
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About Edith Cusack
Born in New Zealand about 1865, Edith Cusack moved to Sydney with her parents in 1868. She studied in Sydney and Paris and became a painter of portraits, landscapes and flowers. She exhibited with the Art Society of New South Wales and the Paris Salon from 1893. In 1896 she and her sister Aline opened a studio in Sydney and exhibited regularly.
In our database, 23 works by Edith Cusack are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 1973, of which 16 (70%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,700 for Aboriginal Family by a River sold by Davidson Auctions in July 2018. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Edith Cusack are held by the Art Gallery of NSW.
Edith Cusack is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 361
- Campbell, Jean. Australian Watercolour Painters: 1780 to the Present Day. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1989. Page 301
- Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, an online resource for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople and curators.
- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
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