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Exhibition Review
Lavery: On Location
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1064–6
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Reviewer:
Masters, Christopher (Masters, Christopher)
Subjects
artists:
Lavery, John
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Great Britain
subjects:
Irish art / British art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Lavery: On Location National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. On the Loing, an afternoon chat (under the cherry tree), by John Lavery. 1884. Oil on canvas, 150.8 by 150.4 cm. (Ulster Museum, Belfast; exh. National Galleries of Scotland).
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11. Daylight raid (the studio window), by John Lavery. 1917. Oil on canvas, 141.5 by 89.9 cm. (Ulster Museum, Belfast; exh. National Galleries of Scotland).
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12. Hunter class, Dublin Horse Show, by John Lavery. 1926. Oil on canvas, 49.5 by 59 cm. (Royal Dublin Society Collection; exh. National Galleries of Scotland).
Book Review
Michael Healy, 1873–1941: An Túr Gloine’s Stained Glass Pioneer
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 332–333
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Reviewer:
Huws, Stephen (Huws, Stephen)
Subjects
artists:
Healy, Michael
subjects:
Irish art / Stained glass
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Michael Healy, 1873–1941: An Túr Gloine’s Stained Glass Pioneer By David Caron. 448 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2023), €55. ISBN 978–1–80151–081–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Ascension, by Michael Healy. 1935–36. Stained glass. (St Brendan’s Catholic Cathedral, Loughrea, County Galway).
Publication Received
Sarah Cecilia Harrison: Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor. Edited by Margarita Cappock
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1303-1304
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Reviewer:
Martin, Henry (Martin, Henry)
Subjects
artists:
Harrison, Sarah Cecilia
museums and institutions:
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
subjects:
Irish art / Women artists / Politics
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Sarah Cecilia Harrison: Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor Edited by Margarita Cappock. 266 pp. incl. 144 col. ills. (Dublin City Council, Dublin, 2022), £20. ISBN 978–1–83846–351–9. | :
Book Review
A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714–1820
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 724-725
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Reviewer:
Griffiths, Antony Vaughan (Griffiths, Antony Vaughan)
Subjects
art literature:
Biographical dictionaries
subjects:
British art / Irish art / Printmakers
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A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish engravers, 1714–1820 By David Alexander. 1120 pp. (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2021), £75. ISBN 978–1–913107–21–5. | :
Exhibition Review
Mainie Jellett (1897–1944): Translation and Rotation
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 284-287
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Reviewer:
Horne, Victoria (Horne, Victoria)
Subjects
artists:
Jellett, Mainie
dates:
2020-2030
dates:
1900-1949
museums and institutions:
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Great Britain
subjects:
Irish art / Women artists / Modernism / Synthetic Cubist
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mainie Jellett (1897–1944): Translation and Rotation Ulster Museum, Belfast 29th October 2021–1st May 2022 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Abstract, by Mainie Jellett. 1922. Oil on canvas, 91.9 by 73 cm. (Ulster Museum, National Museums NI).
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2. Seated female nude, by Mainie Jellett. 1921–22. Oil on canvas, 56.3 by 46.2 cm. (Ulster Museum, National Museums NI).
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3. Study for religious abstract, by Mainie Jellett. c.1932. Pencil on paper, 50.4 by 38.2 cm. (Ulster Museum, National Museums NI).
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4. Painting, by Mainie Jellett. 1938. Oil on canvas, 76 by 64.6 cm. (Ulster Museum, National Museums NI).
Book Review
Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde
06/2021 | 1419 | 163
Pages: 563
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Reviewer:
Kennedy, Roísín (Kennedy, Roísín)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
subjects:
MacGreevy, Thomas / Irish art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Thomas MacGreevy and the Rise of the Irish Avant-Garde By Francis Hutton-Williams. 160 pp. incl. 10 col. + 1 b. & w. ills. (Cork University Press, Cork, 2019), €39. ISBN 978–1–78205–356–9. | :
Book Review
Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 191-192
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Reviewer:
Alexander, Elizabeth (Alexander, Elizabeth)
Subjects
subjects:
Irish art / Sculpture / Churchyard crosses / Crosses / Medieval sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses By Roger Stalley. 248 pp. incl. 196 col. + b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2020), £40. ISBN 978–1–913107–09–3. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
9. Tall (or West) Cross, Monasterboice, County Louth, from the south-west. Early tenth century, height 645 cm. (Photograph Roger Stalley).
Publication Received
Dark Beauty: Hidden Detail in Harry Clarke’s Stained Glass. By Lucy Costigan and Michael Cullen
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 271
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Reviewer:
Cormack, Peter (Cormack, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Clark, Harry
places:
Dublin
styles:
Arts and Crafts movement
subjects:
Irish art / Stained glass
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subjects:
Dark Beauty: Hidden Detail in Harry Clarke’s Stained Glass By Lucy Costigan and Michael Cullen. 270 pp. incl. over 300 col. + b. & w. ills. (Irish Academic Press, Newbridge, 2019),  29.99. ISBN 978–1–7853–233–9. | :
Book Review
Life Above Everything: Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats. Edited by Christina Kennedy and Nathan O'Donnell
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 174-5
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artists:
Freud, Lucian / Yeats, Jack B.
museums and institutions:
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
places:
Ireland / Dublin
subjects:
Catalogues / British art / Irish art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Life Above Everything: Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats Edited by Christina Kennedy and Nathan O’Donnell. 160 pages incl. 76 col. + 16 b. & w. ills. (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2019), €20. ISBN 978–1–909792–24–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Double portrait, by Lucian Freud. 1985–86. Oil on canvas, 78.7 by 88.9 cm. (Private collection; © Christie’s images Ltd. and Lucian Freud Archive; photograph John Riddy; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Expressions of Nationhood in Bronze & Stone: Albert G. Power, RHA. By Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 975-976
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Reviewer:
Ward-Jackson, Philip (Ward-Jackson, Philip; Ward-Jackson, Phillip; Jackson, Philip Ward; Ward-Jackon, Philip)
Subjects
artists:
Power, Albert G.
places:
Ireland
subjects:
Irish art / Sculpture / Sculptors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Expressions of Nationhood in Bronze & Stone: Albert G. Power, RHA By Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch. 280 pp. incl. 184 col. + 21 b. & w. ills. (Irish Academic Press, Newbridge, 2019), £35. ISBN 978–1–78855–066–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Statue of Pádraic O Conaire by Albert G. Power unveiled by Eamon de Valera in Galway, 1935. (Photograph courtesy Galway City Museum).
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