Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) A By-Road, Co. Antrim Oil on canvas, 46 x 61cm, (18.2 x 24'') Signed, inscribed on artist's label verso Exhibited: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, (?) 1931...

Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) A By-Road, Co. Antrim Oil on canvas, 46 x 61cm, (18.2 x 24'') Signed, inscribed on artist's label verso Exhibited: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, (?) 1931 (catalogue no. 34; (?) 1935 (catalogue no. 2) This spirited painting well illustrates the easy fluency of McKelvey's style in the 1930s and later. The handling of the paint, with clarity and freshness in the colours, is typical of his whole oeuvre, a point that the Irish Independent commented on in a review of the artist's work in 1939: 'His cleverness in landscape is astonishing,' said the 'paper, continuing, 'we must admire the depth of feeling with which he interprets Irish landscapes' (Irish Independent, 25 October 1939). There is a label on the reverse of William Mol, Belfast, probably as the framer. Dr. S.B. Kennedy, May 2008

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