Fergus O'Ryan RHA1910 - 1989

Fergus O'Ryan was born in Limerick in 1911 and studied under Richard Butcher at the Limerick School of Art before attending the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He is listed as first exhibiting at the RHA in 1938 and from then he exhibited almost every year until 1984. O'Ryan held solo shows at the Victor Waddington Galleries in Dublin in 1950 and in 1954. In 1952 he provided the illustrations for Patricia Lynch's Tales of Enchantment, and in 1953 he designed a stamp to mark An Tostal. In 195 Read more