Ruth Everard-Haden - Artist Info

About Ruth Everard-Haden

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Ruth Everard Haden
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    Ruth Everard Haden (1904 - 1992)

    Ruth and Rosamund Everard were the daughters of Bertha Everard, who with Bertha's sister Edith King, made up the remarkably creative family of women painters who lived in Mpumalanga (formerly Eastern Transvaal) during the first half of the 20th Century. They became known as the Everard group.

    Isolated from artistic communities and living in a rural location, the extraordinary output has only recently received renewed attention and their significant contribution to South Africa art history acknowledged.

    Ruth was the first daughter of her artistic mother, Bertha Everard and was born in 1904 at Nottingham Road in KwaZulu-Natal. In 1919 she attended Eunice School in Bloemfontein wher...

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