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Dr Kathryn Milligan

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#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 1

The randomiser agreed that we should begin with the watercolour that graces the book's cover: James Mahony’s ‘Dublin from the Spire of St George’s Church, Hardwicke Place’ (NGI, 1854). Mountains to sea, and everything in between

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 1 The randomiser agreed that we should begin with the watercolour that graces the book's cover: James Mahony’s ‘Dublin from the Spire of St George’s Church, Hardwicke Place’ (NGI, 1854). Mountains to sea, and everything in between

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 2

‘But this isn’t off Dublin!’, you say! Well, yes. But, it’s ‘Death’ (c.1930s, NGI) by Harry Kernoff, a colourful tableaux drawing on the danse macabre. A version of this once graced the walls of Toto Cogley’s cabaret on Harcourt Street.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 2‘But this isn’t off Dublin!’, you say! Well, yes. But, it’s ‘Death’ (c.1930s, NGI) by Harry Kernoff, a colourful tableaux drawing on the danse macabre. A version of this once graced the walls of Toto Cogley’s cabaret on Harcourt Street.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 3

A very different type of party! Rose Barton’s watercolour (1897, NGI) shows the swells making their way into Dublin Castle for the viceroy’s levee. For full effect, read George Moore's 'A Drama in Muslin' while viewing this

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 3 A very different type of party! Rose Barton’s watercolour (1897, NGI) shows the swells making their way into Dublin Castle for the viceroy’s levee. For full effect, read George Moore's 'A Drama in Muslin' while viewing this

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 4

Walter Osborne’s ‘The Fish Market’, (1893, HLG), is one of several depictions of Patrick Street by Osborne. Contemporaries viewed these as important records of the street prior to its redevelopment in the later 1890s.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 4Walter Osborne’s ‘The Fish Market’, (1893, HLG), is one of several depictions of Patrick Street by Osborne. Contemporaries viewed these as important records of the street prior to its redevelopment in the later 1890s.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 5

Evening Herald? Daily Nation? Irish Times? Jack B. Yeats’s ‘Dublin Newsboy Boarding a Tram’ (1926, Harvard) is part of a series of tram paintings completed during the 1920s. This image doesn’t capture how richly textured the canvas is!

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 5Evening Herald? Daily Nation? Irish Times? Jack B. Yeats’s ‘Dublin Newsboy Boarding a Tram’ (1926, Harvard) is part of a series of tram paintings completed during the 1920s. This image doesn’t capture how richly textured the canvas is!

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 6

A very different view of Patrick Street! This is 'Patrick Street, Dublin' (c1960s, NGI) by Flora Mitchell, reproduced in her 1966 publication 'Vanishing Dublin'. Like many of us today, Mitchell felt that the city was rapidly changing.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 6A very different view of Patrick Street! This is 'Patrick Street, Dublin' (c1960s, NGI) by Flora Mitchell, reproduced in her 1966 publication 'Vanishing Dublin'. Like many of us today, Mitchell felt that the city was rapidly changing.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 7

An etching rather than a painting this time: Estella Solomons's 'The Leinster Market, 1915', reproduced in the 1928 edition of D. L Kelleher's 'The Glamour of Dublin'. Blocked by gates now, the lane ran between D'Olier and Hawkins Street.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 7 An etching rather than a painting this time: Estella Solomons's 'The Leinster Market, 1915', reproduced in the 1928 edition of D. L Kelleher's 'The Glamour of Dublin'. Blocked by gates now, the lane ran between D'Olier and Hawkins Street.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 8

Paintings depicting the the impact of the Civil War are rare: this is Kathleen Fox’s ‘The Ruins of the Four Courts’ (1922). She had painted a similar view earlier in the same year (now in UCD art collection) making an interesting pair.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 8Paintings depicting the the impact of the Civil War are rare: this is Kathleen Fox’s ‘The Ruins of the Four Courts’ (1922). She had painted a similar view earlier in the same year (now in UCD art collection) making an interesting pair.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 9

Harry Kernoff’s ‘Unemployed’, from his 1942 publication ‘Woodcuts’. This is a portrait of Jack O’Neill who, along with Kernoff and others, travelled to Russia in 1930 with the Irish Branch of the Friends of Soviet Russia.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 9 Harry Kernoff’s ‘Unemployed’, from his 1942 publication ‘Woodcuts’. This is a portrait of Jack O’Neill who, along with Kernoff and others, travelled to Russia in 1930 with the Irish Branch of the Friends of Soviet Russia.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 10

Richard Thomas Moynan's 'Death of the Queen' (NGI,1902) is still a grand (late) Victorian painting. In the finest manner of nineteenth-century urban paintings, it shows a cast of city 'types' and makes a sentimental plea to it's viewer.

#PaintingDublin Advent Calendar Day 10Richard Thomas Moynan's 'Death of the Queen' (NGI,1902) is still a grand (late) Victorian painting. In the finest manner of nineteenth-century urban paintings, it shows a cast of city 'types' and makes a sentimental plea to it's viewer.

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