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38 Nano Reid RHA (1900-1981)Tinkers in a Camp
Watercolour, 35.5 x 28cm (14 x 11”)
Signed
Provenance: Jorgensen Fine Art
€1,000 - €1,500
Born in Drogheda Co. Louth, Nano Reid trained at the Metropolitan School of Art in
Dublin, where she studied under Sean Keating and Harry Clarke. Afterwards she travelled to
Paris, enrolling at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére along with other Irish artists such
as Kathleen Fox. Reid then attended the Central School in London, studying under Bernard
Meninsky. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Dublin Painters Gallery in 1934. After
returning to Ireland, Reid spent the rest of her life in Drogheda, concentrating on painting
aspects of local life and landscapes. However, her paintings are in no way bound by a sense of
locality, but are accomplished essays in painterly abstraction.
By 1942, she had established a reputation for her richness of invention, with economy of
means, and her watercolour landscapes were compared to those of Raoul Dufy. She exhib-
ited at the RHA during the 1930s; but, from 1943, generally exhibited with the IELA, the
Dublin Painters and later with the Independent Artists. She represented Ireland, with Norah
McGuinness, at the Venice Biennale in 1950.
Fig. 18. Nano Reid