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(1878-1946)
Oil on canvas, 76 x 61cm (30 x 24”)
Provenance: Collection Avis and the late Rockwell Gardiner
(U.S.A); sold in these rooms Important Irish Art Sale 15th
March 1990, Cat. No. 51 where purchased by current owner
Michael Augustine Power O’Malley was born in Co. Waterford
in 1878. He emigrated to the United States of America where
he studied painting under Walter Shirlaw (1838-1909), Robert
Henri (1865-1929) and at the National Academy of Design,
New York. He settled in Scarborough, New York. He returned
a number of times on painting trips to the West of Ireland. His
painting “The Fisherman’s Daughter” reproduced in The Irish
Art Review, Dec. 1912 indicates a solid academic training and
is not unlike the work of Patrick Tuohy. O’Malley won first prize
for landscape painting at Aonach Tailteann in 1924. He exhib-
ited a painting entitled “This is My Beloved Son” in the Brussels
Exhibition of Irish Art in 1930. An exhibition of his paintings
was held at the Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork in 1940.
In the United States O’Malley established a reputation as a fine
painter and etcher of Irish landscape and cottage interiors.
He was a prize winner at the San Antonio Exhibition, Texas
in 1927. His work was acquired by American museums and
galleries, among them The Phillips Collection, Washington; The
Library of Congress, Washington; and the Fort Worth Museum
of Modern Irish Art, Vassar College, New York.
€5,000 - 7,000