Mary Alice Evatt Australia, 1898-1973
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About Mary Alice Evatt
Mary Alice Evatt (née Sheffer) was born in Iowa USA in 1898 and came to Australia while quite young. She studied architecture at the University of Sydney, and prominent art schools in both Sydney and Melbourne during the 1930s. She married in 1920, however her career was overshadowed by that of her husband, Herbert Vere ‘Doc’ Evatt, deputy leader of the Labor party under Ben Chiefly, President of the United Nations during the peace process after World War II, and later Justice of the High Court of Australia. When travelling overseas with her husband she studied in New York and Paris and continued to study and work right up until her death in 1973. For Mary Alice Evatt, her art was a place of peace where she could remove herself from the everyday turmoils of a politician's life. In 1943 she was the first woman member appointed to the New South Wales Art Gallery Trust. A retrospective exhibition of her work was shown at the National Trust S. H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney in 2003.
The earliest auction listing we have for Mary Evatt is in 1996 and in total 9 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 6 (67%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $3,600 for Portrait, c.1935 sold by Shapiro Auctioneers in May 2016. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2019.
Mary Alice Evatt is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- 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
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.
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