NORAH MCGUINNESS HRHA (1901-1980) Irish Spring Landscape (1944) Oil on canvas, 47 x 68.5cms (18.5 x 27'') Signed Exhibited: Norah McGuinness Exhibition, Taylor Galleries Dublin, March-April 1979,...

NORAH MCGUINNESS HRHA (1901-1980) Irish Spring Landscape (1944) Oil on canvas, 47 x 68.5cms (18.5 x 27'') Signed Exhibited: Norah McGuinness Exhibition, Taylor Galleries Dublin, March-April 1979, cat. no. 4, where purchased by Mr & Mrs Nesbit Waddington Painted in 1944 and exhibited at the Dawson Gallery, The Weir, represents McGuinness' more romantic period. With its darker hues it is of a more lyrical and yielding nature than her later work. Here she is occupied with verisimilitude rather than with the overall sweep of a scene which was to become her trademark style. This sylvan idyll is possibly a scene she worked on whilst visiting her friend and fellow artist Lady Beatrice Glenavy at her Rathfarnham home, Rockbrook House. The composition reminds one that she was early involved in stage productions, designing both sets and costumes for the likes of W.B. Yeats and Denis Johnston. The foreground trees act as a proscenium arch whilst the poplars lead one's eye deep into the backcloth of the more open countryside. S?le Connaughton-Deeny, 2011

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