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66 George Campbell RHA (1917 - 1979)
Portrait of artist Patrick Collins HRHA
Pen 23 x 15cm
Signed and dated '49
In 1950, Campbell collaborated with his friend Patrick Collins to write the essay, ‘George
Campbell: Profile of an Artist’ for the Envoy. Collins was friendly with Campbell and Dillon
throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He exhibited with the Boys at the IELA from
1950, and with ‘Twelve Irish Artists’, Stockholm, in 1952, and ‘Contemporary Irish Art’,
Wales, in 1953.97 In 1962, Collins was also one of the eight artists to be included in ‘Eight
Irish Painters’ at the Savage Gallery, London. With Campbell, he participated at the opening
exhibition of Gallery 22, in April 1978.
97The Cultural Relations Committee organized both exhibitions.
fig.95: Richard Kingston, Paddy Collins and
George Campbell, Savage Gallery, 1962
fig.96: The Savage Gallery catalogue, ‘Eight Irish
Painters’, 1962
fig.97: ‘Contemporary Irish Art’,
Catalogue Wales, 1953