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Michael Augustine Power O’Malley (1878-1946)
Dongeal Farm Homestead
Oil on board, 40 x 49.5cm (15$ x 19"”)
Signed
Babcock Galleries, New York gallery label verso
Born in Co.Waterford, Michael Augustine Power O’Malley studied
art in France and Italy before &nally settling in America where his
teacher was Robert Henri who had painted on Achill. O’Malley
returned to Ireland periodically and was awarded &rst prize in
landscape painting at Aonach Tailteann in 1923. He exhibited in a
group show of Irish art in Brussels in 1930. !ere were 38 works by
him included in the 1935 New Jersey show including titles such as
A
Donegal Bog
,
Aran Fisherman
and ‘’Spanish Parade - Galway’’ which
shows he traveled all along the West Coast. Other artists included in
the New Jersey Show were Jack B. Yeats, Sean Keating and George
Russell. He exhibited several paintings with an Irish theme at the
Beaux Arts Gallery, London in 1939 such as ‘’!e Kerry Piper’’ ‘’!e
Connemara Man’’ and Clearing up Achill .!e critic Royal Cortissoz
writing in !e New York Herald Tribune wrote ‘’ Mr O’Malley has
found light and air in Ireland and has got them into his pictures. A
more winning transcription of the Irish scene has not come out of
any man’s studio’’.
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Arthur Twells ARUA (b.1921)
Tea Break near Muckish, Co. Donegal
Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 51cm (16 x 20”)
Signed, inscribed with title verso
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