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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2020, vol. 20, no. 1, 154–156 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2020.1792043 Jeanette Hoorn*, Richard Mackay AM with contributions from Christina Dyson, Dinah Dysart, David Mackay, Howard Tanner and Kylie Winkworth Mary Helena Mackay (n
ee Short) was an Australian art historian, researcher, teacher, printmaker, collector and feminist. She was an original and innovative thinker whose pioneering research in Australian art greatly enriched the field. She defended women’s rights and called out injustices when she saw them. Her legacy will live on through her publications, her many contributions to the world of art and in the memories of her students, colleagues, family and friends who benefit- ted from her intellect, generosity and passion. Mary gained First Class Honours in Art History at the Power Institute, University of Sydney in 1979. Her Doctorate, The Geological Sublime: A New Paradigm, in which she studied the impact of new geological research promoted by scientists on theorists of the sublime in art, presented an original reading of the representation of the landscape by artists working in colonial Australia in the nineteenth century. She showed how the writings of Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant influenced interpreters of Australian nature while bringing into focus