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          96. *Patricia Griffith (1912-1973)
        
        
          
            Cactus House
          
        
        
          Gouache, 25.5 x 21.5cm
        
        
          Signed
        
        
          Exhibited: Dublin Painters Exhibition 1942, Cat. No. 39
        
        
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          Pat Griffith, néeWallace was born in Dublin, and studied at the RHA and at the Slade School in
        
        
          London.  She painted mainly in gouache and produced theatre sets and costume designs.  She
        
        
          exhibited with the Dublin Painters,White Stag Group and regularly with theWCSI until mid 1940s.
        
        
          Griffith Lived mostly in Co. Dublin, with frequent visits to Louisburgh, where her mother and
        
        
          brothers lived, and then at Puckane, near Nenagh, Co.Tipperary, until her death in 1973.