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Olive Henry RUA (1902 - 1989)
Boy with Hoop by a Gate
Oil on canvas, 51 x 41cm (20 x 16”)
Signed
Belfast artist Olive Henry is known not only for her painting but also her
photography and stained glass. After taking evening classes at the Belfast
School of Art she was apprenticed to the glass company WF Clokey &
Co. Ltd where she worked for more than half a century. Henry had an
interest in photography from an early age and won various awards for
her photographs. She also wrote a column for Amateur Photography in
the 1930s. Her paintings were exhibited at the Oireachtas, Royal Ulster
Academy, the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Water Colour Society
of Ireland and the National Society in London. Additionally she had
an important joint show with Violet McAdoo at Belfast Museum and
Gallery in 1944. Henry enjoyed travelling and made trips to Brittany,
America and Belgium, where she won an international scholarship in
1957. Following the bombing of the Ulster Hospital for Women and
Children in 1941, the Ulster Academy published a portfolio of Henry’s
lithographs in order to raise money. She was a founding member of the
Ulster Society of Women Artists, and president of the society from 1979
to 1981.
€500 - 800
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Barbara Warren RHA (b.1925)
Mother and Child
Oil on board, 40 x 33cm (15¾ x 13”)
Signed. Inscribed artist’s label verso
€800 - 1,200
