For over 30 years Mayberry Fine Art has quietly brokered sales for countless Canadian and International works of art from private collections.

We provide complete services to confidentially assist you with the sale of complete collections or single works of art.

What to expect when selling or consigning your artwork with Mayberry Fine Art

• Use our Appraisal and Valuation form to send us details on the work(s) of art you may wish to sell. Some of the details we will need include.
  • Artist Name
  • Size (measurements)
  • Date
  • Signature
  • When and where aquired
  • Condition
  • Good quality photograph
• After a fair market value has been agreed upon, we may need to examine the artwork for condition and authentication.
• In the case of larger works or collections which may be awkward to transport, we will visit your location to view the works.
• Crating and shipping is available when needed.
• Purchase options include outright purchase or consignment sale.
• Commission with regard to consignment sales is an agreed-upon percentage between Mayberry Fine Art and the seller. It is based on the value of the artwork. Commission on higher valued works can be as low as 5%.
• Unless specifically expressed otherwise all values and prices discussed or published are in Canadian funds.

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Prudence Heward

1896 - 1947
 

Born in 1896, to a prosperous Montréal family, Prudence Heward received her formal art training at the Art Association of Montreal (AAM). One of the few art institutions which admitted female students at the time, it was run by RCA president, William Brymner. There, she received instruction in drawing from Brymner and landscape painting from Maurice Cullen. Prudence won an AAM scholarship in 1912 and exhibited her work, for the first time, at the AAM spring exhibition, in 1914.

In 1916, Prudence moved to England to serve with the Red Cross with her mother and sisters, in order to be near her brothers who were in the armed forces. Upon her return to Montreal, she resumed her studies at the AAM in 1918. Following her graduation from the AAM she studied in Paris, where she met fellow artist, Isabel McLaughlin, who would become her lifelong friend.

Considered by critics and collectors to be either dilettantes or hobbyists, female artists were extremely marginalized at the time. This prejudice made it difficult for women to be recognized as serious artists. It was, therefore, advantageous to associate with like-minded women artists. In the 1920s, Heward was invited by women of the Beaver Hall Group, (Mabel May, Anne Savage, Mabel Lockerby, Sarah Robertson, Lilias Newton, and Nora Collyer), to be part of their unofficial artist’s society. In 1933, she was also co-founder of the Canadian Group of Painters, and served as co-vice-president along with A.Y. Jackson. (Lawren Harris was president). In 1939, Heward was a founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society.

The first solo exhibition of her work was at the Scott Gallery in Montréal, in 1932. She continued to exhibit with the Beaver Hall women in 1934, (in Toronto and Montréal); in 1940, (in Toronto) and in 1945, (in Windsor). The increased opportunities for showing her work and the recognition accorded it, led to increased sales and prices. Works by Heward can be found in several Canadian galleries including the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, as well as private collections.

Heward had never been of robust constitution, and an automobile accident exacerbated the asthma she had suffered from since childhood. She died in March of 1947, in Los Angeles where she had traveled for medical treatment. A memorial exhibition of Heward's work was shown at the National Gallery in March of 1948.