Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >