Caroline Scally was born in Dun Laoghaire and studied at the Metropolitan School of Art with Sean Keating and James Sinton Sleator under William Orpen. Awarded the Taylor Art Scholarship in 1911 she headed for Paris and then on to Rome. She held her first one-woman show at The Dublin Painters Gallery in 1930 and was later to become President of the Dublin Painters Society in 1962. She exhibited at the first IELA exhibition in 1943 and exhibited regularly at the RHA and with the Watercolour Socie
ty of Ireland becoming a committee member in 1958.
Caroline Scally's work was included in 'Irish Women Artists: 1870-1970' exhibition (2014). Please click here to view the catalogue.
Her work also featured in 'A Celebration of Irish Art and Modernism' (2011) and 'Ireland: Her People and Landscape'(2012).
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