Biggest-ever Paul Henry retrospective
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Sunday Dec 1 2002
PAUL Henry, who died in 1958, is still Ireland's most renowned landscape painter. The spectacular western landscapes of Achill, Connemara, Killary Harbour and Donegal were familiar subjects for him. Now, the biggest ever retrospective of his work, comprising over 100 oils
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PAUL Henry, who died in 1958, is still Ireland's most renowned landscape painter. The spectacular western landscapes of Achill, Connemara, Killary Harbour and Donegal were familiar subjects for him. Now, the biggest ever retrospective of his work, comprising over 100 oils and works on paper, many of which have never been seen before, will be at the National Gallery from February 19 until May 18, 2003.
Drawn from the gallery's own collection and from public and private collections in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the US, this promises to be a very special exhibition.
"Paul Henry was to Irish landscape painting what WB Yeats was to the Celtic Revival in the shaping of Irish culture and this exhibition provides a new generation with a retrospective of his work," says Raymond Keaveney, director of the gallery.
The exhibition is selected and curated by Dr SB Kennedy, Head of Fine and Applied Art at the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Kennedy is the author of a recent biography on Paul Henry, and has written an extensive beautifully illustrated catalogue to accompany this exhibition.
"Paul Henry is the most important Irish landscape painter of the twentieth century. Almost single-handedly he defined a view of the Irish landscape, in particular that of the West, that remains as convincing to modern eyes as it was in his own time," he says.
Tickets for the Paul Henry exhibition went on sale last week, just in time for Christmas stocking filling, and they can be purchased by telephoning (01) 663 3513 or in person from the Gallery's box office in the Millennium Wing.
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