THE DICTIONARY OF IRISH LIVING ARTISTS

The reference work collectors have waited thirty years for…

The Dictionary of Living Irish Artists is the first major survey of contemporary Irish Art since Roderic Knowles Contemprary Irish Art – A Documentation published in 1982 which is now a rare and sough

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DICTIONARY OF IRISH ARTISTS, 20TH CENTURY

Theo Snoddy

Second Edition, Dublin 2002. Clothbound, 768 pages.This.takes up where Strickland leaves off. A terrific reference work, with a mine of biographical detail about 20th century Irish artists who died be

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PAUL HENRY, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

S. Brian Kennedy

2007. Hardback, 341 pages A catalogue raisoné of this great Irish landscape and figurative painter by the man who has become synonymous with his work. A must have for the serious Irish collector.

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CAMILLE SOUTER THE MIRROR IN THE SEA

Garrett Cormican

ublished by Whyte’s, 2006, hardback, 337 pages, €60. A masterly monograph, profusely illustrated, and utterly readable. Includes a detailed catalogue. The definitive work on the most important Irish f

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KENNETH WEBB: A LIFE IN COLOUR

Josephine Walpole

2006. hardback, 160 pages, €30. This book traces the life and work of Kenneth Webb, still working hard at eighty plus, one of the foremost contemporary landscape painters in Ireland, best known for hi

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CECIL MAGUIRE TOWARDS A RETROSPECTIVE

Davison Gallery

2002, paper back, 154 pages.. An illustrated catalogue of a retrospective exhibition held in the Davison Gallery Holywood, Co Down, with over 140 illustrations of this popular Irish artist’s work.

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HARRY EPWORTH ALLEN – CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS

John Basford

Paperback, 2007,191 pages. Harry Epworth Allen was one of the finest British tempera artists of the twentieth century, particulary important for his interpretations of the landscapes of the Derbyshire

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NOEL SHERIDAN ‘ON REFLECTION’

NOeL SHERIDAN

2001. paper back, 212 pages. Written by this ground breaking Irish artist and former head of the National College of Art and Design on his major retrospective exhibition in the Royal Hibernian Academy

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WILLIAM CROZIER

Katharine Crouan

Hardback, 2007, 208 Pages. This is the first major monograph on the work of William Crozier (born 1930), who came to prominence in the 1950s through the early success and notoriety of his exhibitions

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IRELAND'S PAINTERS, 1600-1940

Anne Crookshank and The Knight of Glin

Dublin, 2002, clothbound. A wonderfully concise and most useful guide to the artists of Ireland over three and a half centuries, well illustrated.

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Movers & Shapers 3: Conversations in the Irish Art World

Vera Ryan

Published by Galley Head Press, 2010, paperback, 340 pages. This book is based on interviews with a cross-section of people who are, or who have been, crucial players in the field of Irish art since t

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Journeys Through Line and Colour: Forty Irish Women Artists of the 20th Century

Paul Finucane and Maria Connolly, with a foreword by Dr Hilary Pyle

Published by University of Limerick Press, 2010, hardback, 164 pages.
This beautifully produced book provides an introduction to the lives and work of 40 of Ireland’s greatest Irish women artist

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The Silent Companion:
An Illustrated History of the Water Colour Society of Ireland

Patricia Butler

Published 2010, hardback, 343 pages. Commissioned by the Water Colour Society of Ireland (WCSI) and launched at the National Gallery of Ireland, this book is the first of its kind to chronicle in dept

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Robert Ballagh: Citizen Artist

Ciaran Carty

Published by Zeus Medea Publishing, 2010, hardback. Sequel to Carty’s book Robert Ballagh published by Vincent Browne at Magill in 1986, now out of print and something of a collector’s item. Citizen A

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Privilege and Poverty:
The Life and Times of Irish Painter and Naturalist Alexander Williams RHA 1846-1930

Gordon T. Ledbetter

Published by The Collins Press, 2010, hardback. This absorbing autobiography provides first-hand glimpses of life in Dublin as seen by one of Ireland’s most prolific landscape painters. Supported and

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Irish Women Artists 1800-2009:
Familiar but Unknown

Edited by Eimear O’Connor

Published by Zeus Medea Publishing, 2010, hardback. This collection of essays examines the life, career, work and context of familiar but previously little-known women artists who resided in Ireland,

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Brian Bourke, Five Decades. 1960s - 2000s

Published by Lilliput Press, 2011, hardback.
This superbly produced text is lavishly illustrated and surveys Bourke’s entire career through the writings by Seamus Heaney, Frances Ruane, Carlo

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Sutton at Sixty, Artist in Oils

Published in 2004, hardback, signed copy. Born in 1944 in Kilmore Quay Co. Wexford, where he continues to base himself today, Sutton is a full member of the Dublin Art and Sketching Club and a much so

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Seán Keating in Context
Responses to Culture and Politics in Post-Civil War Ireland

Eimear O’Connor

Published by Carysfort Press, 2009.
Seán Keating (1889-1977) was a controversial and provocative figure during the formative years of the Irish Free State in the early decades of the twentieth c

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Paper Money of Ireland
The definitive guide to Irish banknotes from the origins of banking in Ireland to the present day

Bob Blake and Jonathan Callaway

Published by Pam West, 2009. The most comprehensive text of its kind, this fascinating book covers all details of Irish Banknotes dating back as far as the 17th century. Following 10 years extensive

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Thomas Ryan, Oil Paintings

Thomas Ryan

Published by Nicholson & Bass Ltd., 2009, signed copy. This 252 page case-bound book features the work of Irish Artist Tom Ryan RHA. Almost 300 oil paintings are illustrated from a body of work spanni

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Deborah Brown
From painting to sculpture

Edited by Hilary Pyle

Published by Four Courts Press, 2005. Superbly illustrated this book celebrates the work and career of distinguished Irish artist Deborah Brown .
is celebrated in Ireland for her pioneering ex

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