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Irish Women Artists 1870 - 1970
Summer 2014
85. Joan Jameson (1892-1953)
A View of the Claddagh
Oil on Canvas 30.5 x 39.5cm
Signed
Exhibited: Joan Jameson Exhibition at the Leicester Galleries London 1937;
Joan Jameson Retrospective Exhibition
at The Crawford Gallery Cork September 1989.
Joan Jameson was the daughter of the Sir Richard and Lady Musgrave of Tourin, Cappoquin.
CoWaterford and studied in Paris at Academie Julian. She had two one-person shows at the
Leicester Galleries and alsoTheWertheim and Goupil Galleries in London. In Ireland she was
a member of the Dublin Painters and exhibited at the Irish Exhibitions of Living Art and the
Victor Waddington Galleries. Norah Mc Guinness was one of her closest friends and was a
frequent visitor to her home Rock House, Ardmore, CoWaterford, where her circle included
the novelist Molly Keane.
