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80 Daniel O’Neill (1920 - 1974)
Woman in aYellow Dress
Oil on board , 40 x 30cm, Signed
In 1950, Waddington organized a travelling exhibition in America
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for Campbell, O’Neill,
Dillon and Middleton in association with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, ‘New
Irish Painters.’ Two years later, in January 1952, Campbell, O’Neill and Dillon held a joint
exhibition, ‘Three Irish Painters’ at Child’s Gallery, Boston. Dillon and O’Neill exhibited
later in the year in ‘Twelve Contemporary Irish Artists’, at Göteborgs Konstmuseum and
Konstakademien Gallery, Stockholm, fromMarch to May 1952. At this time O’Neill’s career
had advanced beyond that of Campbell and Dillon, with his first one-man show in London,
at Arthur Tooth’s galleries in 1952. His marriage, however, had broken down by this time
due to alcohol dependence and absences from home.
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For a few years he lived with Sheilagh
Deacon, before moving to Holland Park, London in 1958 with his new partner, Maureen
O’Neill,
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until the late 1960s. O’Neill’s acrylic paintings from this period characteristically
depict a single figure or figures in landscapes. His paintings at the Dawson gallery in the
1960s represent views from Kerry and Donegal from his trips to those areas.
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See footnote 36 for cities in America.
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O’Neill was known to disappear and not return for days. Gena Lynam, ‘
Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974)
Landscape and figure painter,
thesis, 1996, TCD pg.62
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Maureen changed her name to O’Neill when they lived in London.
fig.113: Exhibition catalogue
of ‘New Irish Painters’ 1950,
Daniel O’Neill on cover
fig.114: Inside exhibition catalogue of ‘Three
Irish Painters’ at Child’s Gallery, Boston, 1952
fig.115: Daniel O’Neill