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The Crawford Art Gallery (Irish: Áiléar Crawford) [3] is a public art gallery and museum in the city of Cork, Ireland. Known informally as the Crawford, [4] it was designated a 'National Cultural Institution' in 2006. [5] It is "dedicated to the visual arts, both historic and contemporary", and welcomed 265,438 visitors in 2019. [2]
William Horatio Crawford (1815–1888) was an Irish brewer and philanthropist. [1] He was both a book collector and art collector, and contributed to the art school at the Cork School of Design, which became known as the Crawford School of Art in 1885. Much of the Crawford art collection is now held in the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork city.
Men of the South, 1921–22, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Seán Keating studied drawing at the Limerick Technical School before a scholarship arranged by William Orpen allowed him to go at the age of twenty to study at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. Over the next few years, he spent time on the Aran Islands.
Upon his return home to Dublin, Brenan was appointed as headmaster of the Cork School of Art in 1860. In his thirty-some year tenure as headmaster in Crawford, he set into motion his promotion of art design for industry in the form of workshops - the first of which was for the Convent of Mary in Kinsale, County Cork in 1884. [8]
On his return to Cork in 1940 he took up the position of full-time teacher of painting at the Crawford School of Art, a position he held until his retirement in 1970. [2] In 1943 he and Joan O´Sullivan married. Over many years she was the subject for some of his most intense portraits and a model for many of the female figures in his work.
The Tate Gallery holds his A Mountainous Wooded Landscape. [2] His painting, View of Cork from Audley Place (1750), which was previously attributed to Grogan is now held in the Crawford Gallery, Cork. [1] [8] The National Gallery of Ireland hold a sketch by Butts dated "Feb 24". [11]
Born in 1955 in Athenry in western Ireland, Cecily Brennan studied at the National College of Art and Design, graduating in 1978.Initially working as a painter, her works have been exhibited in the 1980s and 1990s in solo exhibitions at the Project Arts Centre and the Taylor Galleries in Dublin, at Cork's Crawford Art Gallery, and at the Limerick City Gallery.
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