Caroline Scally (1886-1973) 150th Anniversary “1798 Commemorations” at Donnard, Co. Wicklow Oil on board, 32 x 40.5cm (12½ x 16”) Provenance: The Artist's Estate Exhibited: Ireland her...

Caroline Scally (1886-1973) 150th Anniversary “1798 Commemorations” at Donnard, Co. Wicklow Oil on board, 32 x 40.5cm (12½ x 16”) Provenance: The Artist's Estate Exhibited: Ireland her People and Landscape, The Ava Gallery, Clandeboye, June/ September 2012, Cat. No. 48 “Caroline Scally Retrospective”, The Frederick Gallery, Dublin, March 2005, Cat. No. 48 “Irish Women Artists 1870-1970”, Adams Dublin, July 2014; The Ava Gallery, Clandeboye August/September 2014, Cat. No. 58 Literature: “Caroline Scally Retrospective” (2005) illustrated back cover “ Ireland her people and landscape” (2012) illustrated p.55“Irish Women Artists 1870-1970” (2014) illustrated p.74 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 Pairs 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 Society of Ireland, becoming a committee member in 1958.

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