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ZIN Product Number: 10058361
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 Format: Hardcover, 184 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300081308
Release Date: Jan 12, 1999
| |  | | | In Brief
In his idyllic landscape paintings of the west of Ireland, Paul Henry provided the quintessential view of the Irish scene. This generously illustrated biography tells the story of the most influential landscapist to work in Ireland in the twentieth century, interweaves the life of his highly talented wife Grace, and explores his friendships in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Dublin, and Belfast.
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In his idyllic landscape paintings of the west of Ireland, Paul Henry (1876-1958) provides the quintessential view of the Irish scene, now as universally familiar as Cezanne's view of Provence or Constable's recording of Suffolk. Henry stands alone as the most influential landscapist to work in Ireland in the twentieth century. In this generously illustrated biography, S. B. Kennedy tells the story of Henry's life and artistic achievements, interweaves the life of his highly talented wife Grace, and explores his friendships and associations in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Dublin, and Belfast.
Kennedy offers a full account of Henry's entire career, including his early experience studying under Whistler in fin-de-siËcle Paris, his subsequent work as an illustrator in London, and his transforming trip to Achill Island in his native Ireland in 1910. Transfixed by the landscape, the people of the island, and their way of life, Henry thereafter devoted his career to painting Irish life and landscape, introducing a degree of realism that was new to Irish painting. Kennedy also discusses the career of Henry's first wife, Grace (1868ñ1953), a painter in her own right who here emerges from behind the shadow of her husband as a more substantial figure than has been previously recognized. In addition, the author sets Henry's work in historical context and considers the reasons for renewed interest in Henry's landscape paintings in recent years.
About the Author:
S. B. Kennedy is head of fine and applied art at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. Among his previous books is Irish Art and Modernism, 1880-1950, for which he received the Sunday Independent/Irish Life Visual Arts Award.
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This is a highly important contribution to Irish art. Kennedy's account of Paul Henry is authoritative, and his grasp of the whole period quite exceptional. —Bruce Arnold
| |  | | | | Preface and acknowledgements | | | Introduction | 1 | | 1 | Ancestral Voices: late 1700s-1876 | 3 | | 2 | Childhood, Boyhood, Youth: 1876-1898 | 7 | | 3 | Paris: 1898-1900 | 17 | | 4 | London: 1900-1910 | 27 | | 5 | Achill: 1910-1913 | 41 | | 6 | A Landscape Painter: 1914-1919 | 61 | | 7 | Dublin: 1919-1923 | 77 | | 8 | The Gathering Storm: 1924-1929 | 93 | | 9 | Farewell - Grace: 1929-1933 | 107 | | 10 | Carrigoona: 1934-1939 | 117 | | 11 | The Very Soul of Ireland: 1940-1950 | 129 | | 12 | Last Years: 1950-1958 | 141 | | Afterword | 149 | | Exhibitions of the work of Paul Henry | 151 | | Abbreviations | 156 | | Notes | 157 | | Bibliography | 167 | | Index | 170 | | Photographic acknowledgements | 176 |
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