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1950’s : Spain and London
In 1949 Dillon and Campbell contributed to the summer exhibition, ‘Light and Colour’
at Gimpel Fils, London. O’Neill, Middleton, Johnson, Dillon, Reid and Campbell
also sent works to Rotterdam to ‘Iersche Tentoon-Stelling’, which was organized by the
Nederland-lerland Institute. The exhibition traveled to Frans Buffa & Son, Amsterdam and
Rotterdamsche Kunstkring in Rotterdam.
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Campbell had further solo exhibitions at the
Waddington Gallery in 1951 and 1955, and at CEMA in 1952.
In May 1951, ‘Five Irish Painters’ opened at Arthur Tooth & Son Galleries, London. Artists
that contributed were Thurloe Connolly, Dillon, Middleton and O’Neill. Part of Zoltan
Lewinter-Frankl’s collection was shown at ‘Contemporary Ulster Paintings’ held by the Arts
Council, Scotland, 1951, which included works by Dillon, Campbell and O’Neill.
During the summer of 1951, Campbell, MacIntyre and Nano Reid stayed with Dillon on
Inishlacken Island, a mile from Roundstone village. Dillon became friends with the local
children and their families, and often depicted the activities of the children, coming home
from school or returning with their catch of fish. Years later, MacIntyre recorded the trip in
his book,
Three Men On an Island
.
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Dr. John B. Knipping wrote the foreword. The exhibition consisted of sixty-five works by Irish artists.
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Blackstaff Press, 1996.
fig.90: Madge and George Campbell, Bern,
Switzerland, 1950
fig.91: James McIntyre ‘George Campbell
sketching on Inishlacken Island’
fig.92: George Campbell and Gerard Dillon
with children, Inishlacken Island, 1951
fig.93: Front cover of ‘Three Men on
an Island’, Blackstaff Press (1996)