Seán Keating In Focus
25 June - 4 October 2009
Seán Keating was born in Limerick in 1889 and was a popular and important, if controversial figure as an artist, teacher, writer and broadcaster in twentieth-century Ireland. His career spanned seventy years and while he was celebrated for his paintings of the Irish political situation between 1916 and 1924, iconic images of the Shannon Scheme and his representation of the people of the Aran Islands, this work is but a part of his oeuvre.
The exhibition will examine many of the most popular and several of the more obscure aspects of the artist’s career from 1907 to 1977 using iconic images alongside unfamiliar and previously unknown paintings and drawings.
The exhibition will include 33 works, as well as items from the private family papers. Works are mainly borrowed from leading private collections. Included in the exhibition are works that have never before been exhibited in public.
Admission charge. Guided tours daily.
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Seán Keating, 'Late Self Portrait or Seanaithair'
'Flat Calm' c. 1950
Oil on canvas
47 x 60 cm
'An Aran Fisherman and His Wife', 1914
Oil on canvas
124.5 x 99 cm
'On The Run War Of Independence'
Oil on canvas
100 x 121 cm
'Early Self Portrait II ', c. 1907-1911
Oil on canvas , mounted on board
56.2 x 76.5 cm