Wallaroo

Roberta Everett

Roberta Everett's lithographic compositions appear to have focused on exotic animal life, likely sketched at the zoo. This wallaroo is seen from behind and emphasizes the strong tail and hind legs, the subject turns its head to meet the viewer's stare. The "Wallaroo" are kangaroos that live in the hilly or rocky areas of Australia. Other distinguishing features include the large ears, black nose, often in a distinctive upright stance.

Roberta Grace Everett was born on 2 June 1911 in Cranford, New Jersey. Little information on her life is readily available, however, it is known that she attended college and studied with Lewis C. Daniel. She had her own lithography studio in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Everett exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 36th Annual Water Color Exhibition in 1938, and at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts that same year. The following year she was included in the Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture Drawings and Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as in the exhibition American Art Today at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Her lithograph Anteater is number 903 in the related catalogue and is illustrated on page 267. According to Who’s Was Who in American Art, her work was included in an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum in 1939.

Roberta Everett is represented in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Roberta Grace Everett died on 13 April 2007 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.