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Fig. 12. Evie Hone in her studio
Fig. 13. Evie Hone by Norah McGuinness
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Evie Hone was born in Dublin. In 1918, she attended classes at Westminster under Walter
Sickert (1860-1942), after which she went to Bernard Meninsky, who in 1920, advised her
to study in Paris.The artist was joined there by Mainie Jellett who was to become a life long
friend.They worked first under André Lhote and later in 1921 they persuaded Gleizes to
take them on as pupils, where they worked until 1931.
In 1924 with Mainie Jellett, Hone exhibited at the Dublin Painters Gallery. In 1933 she began
to work in stained glass, getting her first commission for Ardcarne near Boyle in 1934. She
worked with An Tur Gloine until 1943. Hone’s early paintings, of the period when she was
exploring Cubism, are often difficult to distinguish from those of Mainie Jellett, but she had a
more committed sense of colour. In 1943, she was a founder member of the Irish exhibition
of Living Art. A memorial exhibition of her work was held in Dublin in 1958.
