[Leica] IMGs: Mary Swanzy exhibition at IMMA

[Jim Nichols]

Quite a diverse group of excellent paintings, Douglas.  And you did a 
nice job of capturing them and presenting them.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 2/8/2019 8:40 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> The Irish Museum of Modern Art is based at the old Royal Hospital at 
> Kilmainham in Dublin. The building was constructed in 1684 and was 
> modelled on the layout of Les Invalides in Paris. It's a wonderful 
> exhibition space and my wife went there as part of her Culture group 
> which has about twenty women in it. I was allowed to tag along as I 
> was her driver and I'm distantly related - 5th cousin - to the 
> pioneering Irish woman artist Mary Swanzy whose work was being given a 
> retrospective. Mary Swanzy (1882-1978) also studied and worked in 
> Paris and was quite eclectic with her many styles of painting. While 
> the art world has seen the work of her contemporaries there - Picasso, 
> Chagall, etc - shoot up in value, her works have stayed in the 
> thousands, rather than the millions spent on her male fellows.
>
> There's a brief intro to her life and her work at this link on IMMA's 
> Youtube channel
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049g-w9xK5o
>
> I took 17 images with my Fuji X100s and here they are.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/IMMA+Dublin/IMMA+1_+side+entrance.jpg.html 
> and click to the right to see the rest. All can be seen LARGE.
>
> Douglas
>
>
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