Mary Edwards b. 1894

Also known as Mary Edwell-Burke, Mary Edwell Burke, Maisie Edwards, Mary E. Burke
  • Artist
A painter and carver, Edwards has been remembered largely for her adversarial role in the Dobell trial of 1944. A flamboyant figure she lived later in Fiji and denied her earlier Australian 'Mary Edwards' work.

Citations

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 36537/1894’.

  • 'Art Gallery of New South Wales cutting books’.

  • Ambrus, Caroline (1984), 'The Ladies’ Picture Show’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Edwards, Mary (1926), 'Shawls’, Australasian, December 25.

  • Ingram, Terry (1994), 'Saleroom’, Australian Financial Review, July 7.

  • McCulloch, Alan and McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW.

  • Phipps, Jennifer (1986), 'Artists’ Gardens’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Reed, John (1945), 'The sad case of Miss Mary Edwards and Miss Tempe Manning-and its lesson’, Angry Penguins Broadsheet no. 1; Harris, Max and McGuire, James (eds.).

  • (1929), 'Fifty Years of Australian Art 1879-1929’, Royal Art Society, Sydney, NSW.

  • Wilkinson, Kenneth (1937), 'Mary Edwards’, Art in Australia, February 15.

  • (1940), Art in Australia, August 23.

  • (1988), Fiji Times, January 22.

  • (1927), Society, November 1.

  • (1947), Telegraph, May 24.

  • 'Artist’s File (including birth date)’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld.

  • Information sourced from Fullagar, Col.

  • (1939), 'Painting in the Pacific’, Art in Australia, February 15.

  • (1940), 'A Balinese Pavlova’, Art in Australia, May 23.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Cruthers, Sheila and Cruthers, Jim (Sir), '[correspondence with Joan Kerr]’, in Joan Kerr papers, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • 'Section 11, plate 482'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage with additions
  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book