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Fig. 39. Fr. Jack Hanlon, Louis le Brocquy, Norah McGuinness, Margaret Clarke and Elizabeth
Curran hanging at the first Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1943
Irish Exhibition of Living Art
By the mid-1940s the success of the Dublin Painters’ Society was beginning to
wane and their role was succeeded by the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, which
again was dominated by women; with Norah McGuinness as its President from
1944 to 1971 and Anne Yeats serving as its Secretary for a similar period. Norah
McGuinness and Nano Reid were chosen by the Irish Government to represent
Ireland at the prestigious Venice Biennale in 1950, Ireland’s first time to exhibit
there . In 1956 the young sculptor and IELA committee member Hilary Heron
was chosen to represent us along with Louis le Brocquy
.
