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When Maurice Dickinson arrived in Malaga, he met Von Reiswitz, Jack Duane
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and
Robert 'Bob' McDonald. Born in New York, McDonald’s mother was a native of Cork and
met Campbell on St Patrick’s Day, 1960. Writer, critic
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and artist, he held a joint show
of paintings and drawings with Campbell in ‘La Buena Sombra’, 1968.
135
On his visits to
London, he visited Dillon
136
and called on his publisher, Hutchinson, who published ‘Out
of Carthage, 1964’.
137
Travelling to Dublin in 1964, he was commissioned to write an article
on stained glass for ‘
Ireland of the Welcomes
’
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‘New Life in Old Art’, as well as illustrating
Campbell’s first stained-glass design, ‘The Sower Sowing the Seed’, for The Church of St
Colman, Tierneevan, Gort, Co. Galway (fig.257).
133
An American, he ran a solar-panel business in Malaga.
134
McDonald reviewed Campbell’s exhibitions in Spain for ‘
Look Out
’, ‘
Ibernian
’, ‘
Sun
’ and ‘
Sur
’. He also wrote
‘On George Campbell’ for
The Dublin Magazine
, Autumn Winter, 1966, Vol. 5. No’s 3 & 4, p. 40.
135
Hosted by Vicente Martin Bonilla, the exhibition opened, 1 February 1968.
136
McDonald reviewed Dillon’s solo exhibition at the Mercury Gallery, 1967, for
The Scotsman
, April 1967.
137
McDonald dedicated the novel to George and Madge (Campbell) and Seamus (Kelly).
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Vol. 13, No. 2, July–August 1964, p. 25.
fig.151: Maurice Dickinson playing
George Campbell’s Manuel Reyes
guitar
fig.152: Manus Walsh, Joe Kerr, Enrique Pérez Alm-
eda, Madge Campbell and Spanish friends at George
Campbell and Robert McDonald’s exhibition, ‘La
Buena Sombra’, 1968
fig.153: Robert MacDonald
fig.154: Robert McDonald,
‘Out of Carthage’, 1964