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Very Good. 1986. Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Previous owner's name to half-title page. Remains a very good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Good. 1986. 1st. Paperback. Good clean copy showing some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but remains a good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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VG. Size: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches; Front cover creased at top corner. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. From the Foreword: WHEN IT WAS first announced about eighteen months ago that the National Gallery of Ireland was planning a major exhibition of the work of James Arthur O'Connor, a Dublin collector said to me that he wished good luck to anyone who would attempt to select such an Exhibition. This meant that there existed so many paintings attributed to O'Connor that the task of knowing which of them he had actually painted would be well-nigh impossible. Implied by the comment was the observation that such an exhibition would be a dull room of almost identical green-brown pictures showing little men in red waistcoats walking along country roads. For such is the reputation of O'Connor who for long has been the best-known and most-loved of all Irish painters. Such an assessment of him, as is startlingly demonstrated by the choice of pictures in the Exhibition, is very far from the truth; and O'Connor is revealed as a major Romantic landscape painter whose works demonstrate a considerable variety of styles, superior technical skills and a poetic sensibility in the treatment of nature. Nor is the story of O'Connor's life exactly without interest: struggling early years; an abortive trip to England, returning home, penniless, to orphaned sisters; then important commissions in Ireland; travels on the Continent and moderate success in London; and, at the end, failing eyesight and financial hardship. It could be the plot of an opera by Balfe or William Wallace. The Exhibition has been selected and catalogued for the National Gallery of Ireland by John Hutchinson and is based on his M. Litt. thesis on the artist for Trinity College, Dublin. He has discovered a great deal of information and writes about the painter in the context of both his literary and artistic contemporaries. The paintings, which are catalogued and shown in chronological sequence according as they were painted, demonstrate the development of the artist's talent. The Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery are deeply indebted to John Hutchinson for putting the fruits of his researches at the disposal of the Gallery by writing a catalogue which will stand as an important monograph on a major Irish painter for many years to come. The catalogue has been edited by Joanna Mitchel and typeset in the Gallery by Barbara Goff. The Exhibition has been arranged in its entirety by the Exhibitions Officer Kim-Mai Mooney. To these and in particular to the many owners who have lent their pictures for the Exhibition the Governors and Guardians and myself are particularly grateful. HOMAN POTTERTON Director, The National Gallery of Ireland, November 1985 208 pages.
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Very Good. 1986. Quarto. 208 pp. Profusely illustrated. Mild shelf wear and scuffing to wraps. Altogether very sound. (Subject: Art & Graphic Design. )
