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During 1950’s Zoltan Lewinter-Frankl regularly invited the Belfast boys to his house at 93
Malone Road or attended the weekly gatherings at Campbell’s Café till it closed in 1958.
By the mid 1950’s, he had amassed a large collection of Northern Irish painters. In March
1958, The Belfast Museum and Art staged an impressive exhibition of his collection, ‘The
Lewinter-Frankl Collection’ which included many works by Campbell, Dillon, and O’Neill.
Other artists included Colin Middleton, Markey Robinson, Paul Nietsche and several other
younger artists, James MacIntyre and Basil Blackshaw.
Towards the end of the 1950s, George Campbell rented a flat above the quasi-abstract
painter, Richard Kingston, in Waterloo Road, Dublin. Dillon often stayed with Kingston or
Campbell at Waterloo Road on his regular visits to Dublin for the IELA committee meetings
and openings. Through Dillon, Campbell met art patron Harold Pickering.
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Pickering
was a regular visitor to the Hendriks gallery. In 1962, he sponsored the exhibition ‘Eight
Irish Painters’
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at the Savage Gallery, London, where Campbell exhibited ‘West of Ireland
Graveyard’. In 1962, Campbell and Dillon held their final two-man show at Gallery 25,
Brunswick Street. They did, however, continue to show together in other group shows.
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Harold Pickering was a Director of Calor Gas and made frequent business trips to Dublin in the 1960s.
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Artists included were Arthur Armstrong, Desmond Carrick, Patrick Collins, Richard Kingston, Kenneth
Webb, Gerard Dillon, Eric Patton and George Campbell.
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‘Vision of The West’ in
The Irish Times
Gallery, July 1967; ‘Ireland Creates’ at the banking hall of the
Munster and Leinster Bank, 23 September 1969, etc.
fig.141: George Campbell’s initial design for
his ‘Friends & Acquaintances’’ exhibition on
another catalogue
fig.142: Richard Kingston, charcoal drawing
of Gerard Dillon