Joyce Vera Mary Ewart (1916–1964) was an Australian painter, graphic artist, and teacher. She was a finalist for the Archibald Prize in 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1948;[1] for the Wynne Prize in 1943, 1945 and 1946;[2] and the recipient of the Mosman Art Prize in 1948.[3] Her works are held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and have been included in several retrospectives and exhibitions.[4] She mounted solo exhibitions at the Macquarie Galleries in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1948 and 1953.[5] She founded the Workshop Art Centre at Willoughby, NSW where the main gallery bears her name and which offers the Joy Ewart Scholarship for Year 10 students and the Ewart Art Prize for works by Centre members.[6] As Ewart included lithography and etching presses in the art centre, it was able to host The Print Circle collective of women artists.[7]
Early life
editJoy Ewart was born on August 29, 1916, in Murrumburrah, New South Wales.[5] She studied at the East Sydney Technical College, and then with Sydney art teachers Antonio Dattilo Rubbo and Desiderius Orban.[8] She left to study in the UK and Europe in 1949,[9] and later took a printmaking course at Tulane University, Louisiana, on a Fulbright scholarship.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Archibald Prize". Art Gallery of NSW. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ "Wynne Prize". Art Gallery of NSW. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ "Joy Ewart: Onions Point 1948". Mosman Art Gallery. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ "Works by Joy Ewart". Art Gallery of NSW. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ a b c Roberts, Jan (1996). "Ewart, Joyce Vera Mary (1916–1964)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ "The Realisation of a Dream". Workshop Arts Centre. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ Stephens, Andrew. "The Print Circle: Fifty years – Print Council of Australia". Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "EWART, Joy". Centre for Australian Art. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ "Artist Will Spend Year In Britain". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 34, 663. New South Wales, Australia. 26 January 1949. p. 5. Retrieved 9 September 2020 – via National Library of Australia.