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94. Rosaleen Brigid Ganly HRHA (1909-2002)
Nude
Oil on board, 46 x 40.5cm
Signed with monogram and dated ‘51
Exhibited:
Brigid Ganly Retrospective
April/May 1998 Hugh Lane Gallery
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Brigid Ganly was the daughter of the artist Dermod O’Brien who became President of the
RHA in the year she was born a position he held till 1944 and spent her early childhood at
the family estates in Limerick , Cahirmoyle before the family returned to Dublin in 1919. She
attended the Metropolitan School of Art under Tuohy and won prizes for sculpture which
she studied with Oliver Sheppard. She continued her studies at the RHA Schools where her
teachers included Margaret Clarke and Sean O’Sullivan. She continued her studies in Florence
and Rome . She was a regular exhibitor at the RHA where she became a full member in 1935
and with theWatercolour Society of Ireland .This work shows the influence of André Lhote
on her work having studied with him in 1951.
