Documento 8 - Art and Artists / Bound Photographic and Document Volume

c.250 pp; 38 cm x 30; Bound volume, photographic print, newspaper clipping and printed

A large bound volume with a manuscript annotation on spine which reads ‘Art and Artists’. The volume contains newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence (particularly re loans of paintings), printed ephemera (exhibition catalogues), and photographs relating to prominent Irish artists, and exhibitions of their work. Many of these artists were associated with Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The volume includes:
• Clippings (obituaries) and photographs relating to the death of Albert Power (1881-1945). The photographs show Éamon de Valera, Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. in attendance at Power’s funeral. The clippings include an appreciation by C.P. Curran. (‘Sunday Independent’, 15 July 1945).
• Photographic copies of artwork by various old masters.
• Photographic prints of Mary Redmond (1863-1930). Includes images of her at work on the Father Mathew Statue (O’Connell Street, Dublin). One of these photographs is dated 30 June 1891. Another image shows her memorial bust for RIC District Inspector William Limbrick Martin.
• A clipping of an article by Kathleen O’Brennan, ‘Seán Keating Speaks Out’, ‘The Irish Digest’ (c.1945).
• A flier for the Tuam Art Exhibition, St. Jarlath’s College, County Galway (1-4 April 1945).
• A catalogue of the Evie Hone Exhibition, The Dawson Gallery, Dublin. (Oct.-Nov. 1945).
• A clipping of an article titled ‘Stained glass at An Tur Gloine’, ‘Irish Statesman’ (13 Mar. 1926).
• Typescript list of paintings and artworks loaned from ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office. Includes works by Jack B. Yeats, Seán O’Sullivan, Seán Keating, and Richard King. (1946). With similar lists of artworks (paintings and sketches) loaned to the Tuam Art Exhibition in 1948 and in 1950.
• Clippings with references to the Victor Waddington Galleries on South Anne Street, Dublin (1947) and exhibitions in the Royal Hibernian Academy.
• Includes a letter to Fr. Senan from Sir Shane Leslie re a painting titled ‘The Eviction’ by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Thompson, 1846-1933). 10 May 1947.
• Catalogue for the exhibition of art by Sir Gerald Kelly RHA, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin. (11-13 Mar. 1948).
• Catalogue of art by Jacob Epstein, Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin (Apr. 1948).
• Letters to Fr. Senan from Germaine Stockley and Somhairle Mac Cana (1948)
• Letters to Fr. Senan from Seamus Murphy, sculptor, enclosing a photographic print of his bust of Thomas Davis. (21 Oct. 1942-16 Mar. 1943)
• A letter to Fr. Senan from Máirín Allen (22 Oct. 1948) and a photographic card from Clare Sheridan (Dec. 1949).
• A flier advertising an exhibition by nine painters in the ‘Art in Ulster’ exhibition, Gallery, 55a Donegall Place, Belfast. (19-31 Jan. 1948)
• A catalogue of paintings by Anne Yeats (1948)
• Photographic prints of Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald at an exhibition of paintings by Max and Gladys MacCabe, Dawson Gallery, Dublin (Sept. 1950).
• A printed flier on John Hogan’s sculpture of the dead Christ in St. Teresa’s Church, Dublin. Text (poem) by ‘Benmore’. (Dec. 1924).

Other artists referred to in the volume (mainly in newspaper clippings and exhibition catalogues) include:
Dermod O’Brien
Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917)
Robert James Enraght-Moony (1879-1946)
Laurence Campbell (1911-2001) Includes images of the sculptural busts of Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
J. Humbert Craig RHA (1877-1944)
Jack Bilbo (1907-1967)
Thomas J. Cullen (1879-1947)
George Frederick Campbell (1917-1979)
Clare Sheridan
Dugald Sutherland MacColl (1859-1948)
Andrew O’Connor (1874-1941), sculptor
Seán Keating
May Power (1903-1993), sculptor
Oisín Kelly (1915-1981)
Fr. Jack Hanlon (1913-1968)
Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974)
Harry Kernoff (1900-1974)
Oliver Sheppard (1865-1941)
Charles Geoghegan (1820-1908), architect
Seán O’Connor (1909-1992)

The spine end covering is torn away from the text block. Some of the clippings and prints within the volume are fragile. Careful manual handling of the volume is required. Some of the photographic prints have been extracted from the volume and placed in a separate folder.