Evie Hone was born in Dublin. In 1918, she attended classes at Westminster under Walter Sickert (1860-1942), after which she went to Bernard Meninsky, who in 1920, advised her to study in Paris. The artist was joined there by Mainie Jellett who was to become a life long friend. They worked first under André Lhote and later in 1921 they persuaded Albert Gleizes to take them on as pupils, where they worked until 1931. In 1924 with Mainie Jellett, Hone exhibited at the Dublin Painters Gallery.
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n 1933 she began to work in stained glass, joining An Tur Gloine and getting her first commission for Ardcarne near Boyle in 1934. She worked with An Tur Gloine until it closed in 1944. Hone’s early paintings, of the period when she was exploring Cubism, are often difficult to distinguish from those of Mainie Jellett, but she had a more committed sense of colour.
In 1943, she was a founder member of the Irish exhibition of Living Art. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Hugh Lane Gallery, Ulster Museum and Crawford Gallery. A memorial exhibition was held in Dublin in 1958.
Evie Hone's work featured strongly in Adam's loan exhibition 'Irish Women Artists: 1870-1970' (2014). Please click here to view the catalogue.
Her work also featured in:
'A Celebration of Irish Art and Modernism' (2012). Please click here to view the catalogue.
'Gerard Dillon: Art and Friendships' (2013). Please click here to view the catalogue.
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