Mary McIntyre

Mary McIntyre (born 1928) is a New Zealand artist. Her works are included in major art collections in New Zealand and Australia.

Background McIntyre was born in Auckland, New Zealand. She began painting while living and working in Waikato, where her husband was a farmer. In 1966 she attended an Elam School of Fine Arts Summer School in Auckland and was tutored by Colin McCahon.

Career McIntyre is known for her realist works in which she creates ambiguous, often surreal, narratives. Influenced by the style and composition of Northern Italian and Renaissance art, she became known in New Zealand as a realist figurative painter. Her landscapes take New Zealand as their subject, specifically the volcanoes of Auckland. The Birth of Adonis, or Portrait of three prominent men, or The Kiwi cup of tea (1981); Moa summer (c. 1993).

Her works are included in the collections of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Waikato Museum of Art and History, James Wallace Arts Trust, and the National Museum of Australia. The Art of Mary McIntyre (2016) at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Then and Now (2016) at whitespace, Auckland, New Zealand