William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968) The Street Dance Coloured chalk, 61 x 53.5cm (24 x 22'') Signed John Magee exhibition label verso Provenance: From the McClelland Collection and on loan to...

William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968) The Street Dance Coloured chalk, 61 x 53.5cm (24 x 22'') Signed John Magee exhibition label verso Provenance: From the McClelland Collection and on loan to IMMA from 1999 - 2004 Exhibited: Ulster Artists Exhibition, the AVA Gallery, Clandeboye, April 2010, catalogue no. 7 Literature: ''The Hunter Gatherer'', Irish Museum of Modern Art, fig.17, p.27. William Conor was born in Belfast and studied graphic design at the Government School of Design and was then apprenticed to a poster designer. He exhibited at the RHA for the first time in 1918 and continued to do so until the year before his death. During both World Wars Conor was commissioned by the British Government to produce records of soldiers in the form of sketches, some of which were included in an exhibition of war artists at the National Gallery of London in 1941. He spent a number of years in London in the 1920s where he met John Lavery and Augustus John, and in 1926 travelled to America to undertake various portrait commissions. Conor was elected a member of the RHA in 1946 and later was president of the Academy. His works can be found in major collections including the Ulster Museum, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Imperial War Museum in London, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

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