Olive Henry RUA (1902 - 1989)

Boy with Hoop by a Gate

Oil on canvas, 51 x 41cm (20 x 16")

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Belfast artist Olive Henry is known not only for her painting but also her photography...

Olive Henry RUA (1902 - 1989)

Boy with Hoop by a Gate

Oil on canvas, 51 x 41cm (20 x 16")

Signed

 

Belfast artist Olive Henry is known not only for her painting but also her photography and stained glass. After taking evening classes at the Belfast School of Art she was apprenticed to the glass company WF Clokey & Co. Ltd where she worked for more than half a century. Henry had an interest in photography from an early age and won various awards for her photographs.

She also wrote a column for Amateur Photography in the 1930s. Her paintings were exhibited at the Oireachtas, Royal Ulster Academy, the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Water Colour Society of Ireland and the National Society in London. Additionally she had an important joint show with Violet McAdoo at Belfast Museum and Gallery in 1944. Henry enjoyed travelling and made trips to Brittany, America and Belgium, where she won an international scholarship in 1957. Following the bombing of the Ulster Hospital for Women and Children in 1941, the Ulster Academy published a portfolio of Henry's lithographs in order to raise money. She was a founding member of the Ulster Society of Women Artists, and president of the society from 1979 to 1981.

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