Irish Arts Review

Current and Forthcoming ExhibitionsSource: Irish Arts Review (1984-1987), Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer, 1984), pp. 56-57Published by: Irish Arts ReviewStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20491627 .

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IRISH ARTS REVIEW

EXHIBITIONS

Ireland with Daphne Montgomery of Grey Abbey, the wife of Sothebys' repre sentative William Montgomery, as its first chairman. The NACF as a charity

makes grants to galleries and museums to enable them to buy works of art they could otherwise not afford. Although the Fund's name would imply that it assists primarily with purchases for the larger national collections, it is, in fact, equally interested in helping smaller museums and art galleries: these museums play an increasingly important role, especially with the education of the younger generation and it is vital that they are given as much support as possible.

Sir Peter Wakefield of the NACF and the Directors of Sothebys gave a party at

Grey Abbey on 17th May to celebrate the launching of the Fund's new branch.

SOTHEBY'S IN IRELAND

The Directors of Sotheby's gave a champagne reception in Dublin on May Day to celebrate their new Irish office at 123a Upper Abbey Street, Dublin. The host, their representative in Ireland Mr

William Montgomery, received guests with other Irish consultants Julia Keane (Cappoquin, Co. Waterford) and Mary

Boydell (Dublin).

IRISH ART SALES

We have received the first issue of a useful publication called Irish Art Sales

which is to appear 3 times a year, showing the prices of Irish pictures sold at auction in the Republic of Ireland over the preceeding 4 months. This publication can be obtained by subscription for IR?19.70 from Irish Art Sales, 48, Upper Drumcondra Road, Dublin 9.

CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING

EXHIBITIONS

NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND * DUBLIN

ANNUAL R.H.A. EXHIBITION JUNE 21STUNTILJULY 22ND

One of the Durer prints from the Chester Beatty Library exhibition

MANSION HOUSE- DUBLIN

19TH ANTIQUE DEALERS' FAIR AUGUST 6TH UNTIL AUGUST 11 TH

The Annual Fair of the Irish Antique Dealers' Association will be held as usual in the Mansion House from 6th to 11th

August. Hours of opening are from 3pm to 9.30pm on Monday and from 2pm to 9.30pm from Tuesday to Friday. On Saturday the Fair is open from 11am to 6pm.

The Fair which coincides with the Dublin Horse Show attracts a great deal of interest both from international as well as home buyers. This year the exhibitors include most of the well known dealers in furniture, pictures, silver, porcelain and jewellery. A newcomer to the Association, Peter Linden, who specialises in fine quality oriental rugs and carpets will make a welcome addition to the Fair.

THE GUINNESS HOP STORE- RAINSFORD ST DUBLIN 8

ROSC '84 - AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF

CONTEMPORARY ART AUGUST 19TH TO NOVEMBER 17TH 1984

The exhibition inaugurates a new venue in Ireland for the visual arts, .the

Guinness Hop Store. This four-storey brick building, located in the heart of medieval Dublin, near the brewery, at St. James's Gate, is a prime example of Victorian industrial architecture; it has been refurbished with the aid of a grant from the Government of Ireland by

Guinness & Co Ltd to the design of Ronald Tallon. Information:

ROSC '84, 52 Newmarket, Dublin 8. Telephone: Dublin (01) 688545 and 688978. Overseas information may be obtained from offices of Bord Failte Eireann, The Irish Tourist Board.

ULSTER MUSEUM BELFAST

TONY O'MALLEY RETROSPECTIVE JUNE 13TH UNTILJULY 20TH

ULSTER MUSEUM * BELFAST

DURER PRINTS FROM THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY

JULY 27TH UNTIL SEPTEMBER 9TH

CASTLETOWNSHEND CO CORK

THE SOMERVILLE AND ROSS COMMEMORATIVE FESTIVAL

SEPTEMBER 5TH TO SEPTEMBER 9TH

BIRR CASTLE * CO OFFALY

1984 EXHIBITION: THE MAKING OF THE GARDENS

MAY 25TH UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH

Wednesday to Sunday (Plus Bank Holidays) 14.30- 17.30 pm. No separate admission charge for the exhibition, entry to which is either free, for all Friends of the Birr Castle Demesne, or included in the standard admission charges for visitors entering the grounds. Admission charges: Adults IR?2 Children IR?1.50 Group (20+): Adults IR?1.50 Children IR?1.00.

LIMERICK EXHIBITION OF VISUAL ART

To be adjudicated by art critic and author Peter Fuller, entry will be open to all artists who may submit two works by late August 1984. Application forms and full details are available from Lorraine

Wall, Inchbeg, Ennis, Co Clare.

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IRISH ARTS REVIEW

EXHIBITIONS

rnER _ BRITISH MUSEUM* LONDON WC2

CHINESE IVORIES UNTIL AUGUST 19TH

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM* LONDON SW7

ROCOCO - ART AND DESIGN IN

HOGARTH'S ENGLAND UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH

WILLIAM KENT 1685-1749 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2ND

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS* LONDON SWI

ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION

MAY 19TH UNTIL NOVEMBER 19TH

THE AGE OF VERMEER AND

DEHOOCH SEPTEMBER 7TH UNTIL NOVEMBER 18TH

PARK LANE HOTEL LONDON WI

INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR

SEPTEMBER 19TH UNTIL SEPTEMBER 22ND

THE PARK LANE HOTEL ANTIQUES FAIR

OCTOBER 3RD UNTIL OCTOBER 8TH

With an exhibition of treasures from the Royal School of Needlework and of a private collection of 19th century Visiting Card Cases. Admission ?3 stg. including catalogue.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM LONDON SW7

FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION: ANIMALS AS

ARCHITECTS UNTIL SEPTEMBER I ST

BURGHLEY HOUSE

STAMFORD- LINCOLNSHIRE

SILVER FROM THE FAMILY COLLECTION

UNTIL OCTOBER 7TH

LONGLEAT HOUSE* WILTSHIRE

INTERNATIONAL DOLL'S HOUSES EXHIBITION

JULY 1 2TH UNTIL OCTOBER 28TH

A R Penck, Soldier, 1983. To be shown at ROSC '84.

HUNTERIAN ART GALLERY* UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW

JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER MAY 25TH UNTIL NOVEMBER 3RD

SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART* EDINBURGH

CREATION: MODERN ART AND NATURE

AUGUST 15TH UNTIL OCTOBER 14TH

MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM 750 N LINCOLN MEMORIAL DRIVE

MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN

MASTER EUROPEAN DRAWINGS FROM THE

NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND UNTIL AUGUST 5TH

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FREER GALLERY OF ART* WASHINGTON D.C.

JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER MAY I 1 TH UNTIL DECEMBER 1 ST

Not since the shows mounted following Whistler's death in 1903 has there been

a major survey of his work. The major repositories of Whistler's work, the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Hunterian Gallery in Glasgow are both forbidden by the terms of their bequests to lend, so it is felicitous that they should mount simultaneous exhibi tions this year which between them represent a comprehensive view of the

Massachusetts-born artist. The Freer's collection of 1,200

paintings, drawings, pastels, watercolours and prints by Whistler was formed by the Gallery's founder Charles Lang Freer

who had acquired eighty etchings and one watercolour by Whistler before they actually met in 1890 in London; sub

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sequently he became Whistler's most important patron and continued to add to his collection after Whistler's death, including his purchase of The Peacock

Room from the painter's sister-in-law for $30,000.

Admirers of Whistler's work will want to be able to cross the Atlantic to see both the Freer and the Hunterian exhibitions.

THE PIERPOINT MORGAN LIBRARY 29 E 26TH STREET* NEW YORK CITY

MASTER EUROPEAN DRAWINGS FROM THE

NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND AUGUST 25TH UNTIL OCTOBER 7TH

OCTOBER 27TH UNTIL DECEMBER 9TH

In 1985 the above exhibition will be going to Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Santa Barbara before returning to Ireland to go on show in the National

Gallery of Ireland itself.

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MUSEE DE PONT-AVEN FINISTERE

RODERIC O'CONOR JUNE 30TH UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH

The Museum of Pont-Aven in Brittany, France, has organised an exhibit?on of the work of the Irish artist, Roderic

O'Conor, who was born in Roscommon in 1860 and died in France in 1940. The exhibition was selected, and the catalogue prepared by the Belfast artist, Roy Johnston, (who is Head of Painting in the School of Fine Art at Ulster Poly technic), under the responsibility of

Monsieur Pierre Quiniou, curator of the Musee des Beaux Arts in Quimper. Mr

Johnston wrote on Roderic O'Conor in Brittany in Irish Arts Review Vol.1 No.1; his research which he began in 1980, has

uncovered much new and hitherto unpublished information on the painter, as well as a large number of works which

have not been previously exhibited. It was in Brittany, during the last

decade of the nineteenth century, that

O'Conor developed a close friendship with Paul Gauguin and his circle, as a

member of what has become known as

'The School of Pont-Aven'. Among the eighty works to be exhibited will be

many of the paintings, drawings, and

prints which Roderic O'Conor comple ted at that time.

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