Alice Avery

{{Short description|New Zealand artist (1868–1957}}

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{{Infobox artist

| name = Alice Avery

| birth_name = Alice Lethbridge Perry

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1868|09|02|df=y}}

| birth_place = Masterton, New Zealand

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1957|09|29|1868|09|02|df=y}}

| death_place = Hastings, New Zealand

| resting_place = Havelock North Cemetery

| spouse = {{marriage|Alfred Avery|1895|1917|end=d.}}

| children = 2

}}

Alice Lethbridge Avery (née Perry; 2 September 1868 – 29 September 1957) was a New Zealand artist.

File:White Azaleas Alice Lethbridge Avery.jpg

Avery was born Alice Lethbridge Perry in Masterton on 2 September 1868, the sixth daughter of Bennet Pascoe Perry and Mary Ann Perry (née Masters).{{Cite web |title=Avery, Alice Lethbridge, 1868-1957 |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22390445 |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=The National Library of New Zealand}}{{Cite web |title=White Azaleas |url=https://collection.mtghawkesbay.com/objects/6015/white-azaleas |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=MTG Hawke's Bay |archive-date=2023-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331025121/https://collection.mtghawkesbay.com/objects/6015/white-azaleas |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Dbirths |title=Birth search: registration number 1868/19136 |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |access-date=5 January 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZSCSG18510111.2.6 |title=Married |date=11 January 1851 |work=New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian |volume=7 Issue=568 |page=2 |access-date=5 January 2024 |via=PapersPast}} On 18 September 1895, she married Alfred Avery, who worked for the Government Life Insurance Department, in Masterton.{{Cite news |date=27 September 1895 |title=Chit Chat |pages=15 |work=New Zealand Mail |issue=1230 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18950927.2.30.3 |access-date=2 January 2024 |archive-date=2 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102040339/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18950927.2.30.3 |url-status=live }} They had two sons, including Norman Alfred Avery.{{Cite web |title=Norman Alfred Avery |url=https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C115979 |access-date=2024-01-02 |archive-date=2018-02-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208053742/http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C115979 |url-status=live }} They lived in Napier and later in Hastings.

Avery exhibited at Auckland Society of Arts, Canterbury Society of Arts (1909 and 1925) and New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (1905-1948).{{Cite web |title=Avery, Alice Lethbridge |url=https://findnzartists.org.nz/en/artist/532/alice-lethbridge-avery |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=findnzartists.org.nz |archive-date=2023-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924095355/https://findnzartists.org.nz/en/artist/532/alice-lethbridge-avery |url-status=live }} She exhibited at local clubs and societies, including the Masterton Sketch Club's annual exhibition, Havelock North Arts and Crafts exhibition, and the first exhibition of the Hawke's Bay Art Society.{{Cite news |date=3 November 1927 |title=Sketch Exhibition |pages=5 |work=Wairarapa Daily Times |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19271103.2.27 |access-date=2 January 2024 |archive-date=2 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102040256/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19271103.2.27 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |date=20 March 1948 |title=Fine Display |volume=LXXV |pages=6 |work=Gisborne Herald |issue=22591 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19480320.2.91 |access-date=2 January 2024 |archive-date=2 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102040358/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19480320.2.91 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |date=15 October 1927 |title=Corrections |volume=XVII |pages=8 |work=Hawke's Bay Tribune |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19271015.2.56 |access-date=2 January 2024 |archive-date=2 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102040258/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19271015.2.56 |url-status=live }} She sold four paintings at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts 1922 and 1930 exhibitions.{{Cite news |date=30 May 1930 |title=Academy of Fine Arts |volume=CIX |pages=5 |work=Evening Post |issue=125 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19300530.2.28 |access-date=2 January 2024 |archive-date=2 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102040354/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19300530.2.28 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |date=13 May 1922 |title=Academy of Fine Arts |volume=XLIX |pages=8 |work=New Zealand Times |issue=11208 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19220513.2.100 |access-date=2 January 2024 |archive-date=2 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240102040347/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19220513.2.100 |url-status=live }} Her artist files are held at Te Papa and one of her paintings is in MTG Hawke's Bay.

Her niece, Marion Tylee, who was also an artist, included a biography of her aunt in her papers, deposited at the National Library of New Zealand.

Avery died in Hastings on 29 September 1957, having been predeceased by her husband in 1917, and her ashes were buried in Havelock North Cemetery.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19170510.2.75 |title=Obituary |date=10 May 1917 |work=The Press |volume=53 |issue=15897 |page=9 |access-date=5 January 2024 |via=PapersPast}}{{cite web |url=https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE64668080 |title=Avery, Alice Lethbridge |publisher=Archives New Zealand |access-date=5 January 2024}}{{Cite web |title=Alice Lethbridge Avery (cremation) |url=https://hastingsdc.discovereverafter.com/profile/33680598 |website=Hastings District Council |access-date=5 January 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://hastingsdc.discovereverafter.com/profile/33686580 |title=Alice Lethbridge Avery (burial) |website=Hastings District Council |access-date=5 January 2024}}