Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) Donegal Coastal Landscape with Cottages Oil on board, 30 x 42cm, (11.75 x 16.5'') Signed his is a well constructed landscape by the artist and painted in a free...

Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) Donegal Coastal Landscape with Cottages Oil on board, 30 x 42cm, (11.75 x 16.5'') Signed his is a well constructed landscape by the artist and painted in a free impressionistic style with loose brush strokes. The artist uses a triangular foreground and middle distance construction to bring the eye into the horizon whilst keeping the whole well balanced by the larger diagonals of the clouds in the background defining the picture plane of interest. The cottage at an angle repeats the smaller more scattered houses of the adjoining clachan which linked to the foreground pool gives a most charming, lively and atmospheric composition. Ciar?n MacGonigal, May 2008

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