Artist Details

Norah McGuinness

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Still life

 

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NORAH MCGUINNESS (1901 – 1980)

Norah McGuinness, the Derry-born artist who died in 1980, has been one of
the talking points of the Irish art scene in recent times, with prices
taking an upward surge in the auction houses and in private sales – good
news for a number of collectors of her work here in Donegal and in Derry.

There are examples of her work in all the major Irish public collections and
also in important collections abroad. Paintings can also be seen locally in
the collection of the Derek Hill Glebe Gallery in Churchill and in Foyle and
Londonderry College, as well as in the Model and Niland Centre in Sligo

Born in 1901, Norah McGuinness studied at the Metropolitan School of Art,
Dublin, the Chelsea Polytechnic, London, and with André l'Hote in Paris. She
lived in London during the 1930s but returned to settle in Dublin in 1940.
She was elected an honorary member of the RHA in 1957 but resigned in 1969.
During her lifetime she became well-known both in Ireland and abroad, and
her work was included in exhibitions on the Continent and in the US. She
represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1950.

Her work in Ross Fine Art gallery is an energetic and beautifully-executed
drawing called ‘Fun and Games’.