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Online UCD Lectures Series 2021 Exploring the Collection of the

A list of the artists and artworks looked at so far during this lectures series is included here for anyone who wishes to explore these artists further. The Gallery’s online collection is also a helpful resource and artists can be explored by searching the a-z tab: http://emuseum.pointblank.ie/online_catalogue/artists.php?letter=a

Thursday 28 January 2021 2pm Exhibition in Focus: Worlds Without End: Stories Around Borders Lecturer: Victoria Evans, Exhibitions Curator

Link to Worlds Without End Exhibition Guide with artist and artwork details: http://www.hughlane.ie/phocadownload/exhibitions/wwe%20guide_final.pdf

Thursday 4 February 2021

2pm Pre-Raphaelite paintings and 19th century British artists in the Hugh Lane Gallery collection Lecturer: Yseult O’Driscoll Artists and artworks discussed , Sir Hugh Lane (1906) JE Millais, The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1850/1) JE Millais, The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1850/1) (The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) JE Millais, Lilacs (1885) JE Millais, Bubbles! (1888/9) (V&A Museum) Arthur Hughes, Mariana in the Moated Grange (c1860) Simeon Solomon, The Finding of Moses (1862) Simeon Solomon, The Bride (1872) (DCG HL) Simeon Solomon, The Bridegroom (1873) Edward Burne-Jones, Stained Glass Designs (c1885) Edward Burne-Jones, The Sleeping Princess (1874) Albert Moore, Azeleas (1868) Lord Frederic Leighton, Study of a Draped Figure James MacNeill Whistler, The Artist’s Studio (1865) Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas (1656) (Prado Museum) John Constable, Study of Clouds (c1820) Paul Henry, Turf Bog Scene (20th Century)

Thursday 11 February 2021 2pm Depictions of Irish life - social, artistic and political - in the Hugh Lane Gallery’s collection Lecturer: Dr Anne Cormican, art historian

Artists and artworks discussed

Walter Osborne, The Fish Market; Interior, St Patrick's Cathedral, ; March's Library; Mother and Child; Tea in the Garden; , A Breezy Day ; Sean Keating, An Aran Fisherman and his Wife; The Matriarch; The Tipperary Hurler; Kathleen Fox, Science and Power; Jack B. Yeats, The Ball Alley; The Accordion Player; Margaret Clarke, St Patrick Climbs Croagh Patrick; , St. Patrick's Purgatory; The Blessing of the Colours; William Conor, A Sup of Tea; Charles Lamb, Bringing Home the Seaweed; Maurice MacGonigal, The Turf Boat, Lough Corrib; Dockers; Robert Ballagh, No. 3; Willie Doherty, At the Border II - (Low Visibility); Brian Maguire, The Foundation Stones (Mental Home); Stardust Memorial.

Thursday 18 February 2021 2pm Women Artists in the Hugh Lane Gallery’s Collection (Part 1 - up to 1950) Lecturer: Yseult O’Driscoll

Artists and artworks discussed , Jour d’Ete (1879) John Butler Yeats, (1880s) Sarah Purser, WB Yeats (1909) Sarah Cecelia Harrison, Self Portrait (1890) Sarah Cecelia Harrison, Thomas and Anna M Haslam (1908) Margaret Fox, Science and Power (1910) Margaret Fox, Ruins of the Four Courts (c1916) (Adams Fine Arts) Grace Plunkett, The Simple Life (1906) Grace Plunkett, Edward Martyn Having a Week of it in Paris Grace Henry, Evening, Achill (1912) Gwen John, Study of a Young Girl and Study of a Young Girl in a Hat (1922) Gwen John, Young Woman Holding a Black Cat (c1920-25) (Tate Collection) Margaret Clarke, Ann (1920) Wilhelmina Geddes, Cinderella Dressing her Ugly Sister for the Ball (c1910) Wilhelmina Geddes, Life of St Colman of Duagh triptych (1911) Sean Keating, Aran Fisherman and his Wife (1916) , St Brighid (1925) Paul Henry, Lakeside Cottages (1929) , Composition (1930) Evie Hone, Abstract (1930) Isobel Gloag, Woman with Puppets (Before 1917) Thursday 25 February 2021 2pm Women Artists in the Hugh Lane Gallery’s Collection (Part 2 - post 1950 to Contemporary Art) Lecturer: Dr Anne Cormican, art historian Artists and artworks discussed

Nano Reid,Friday Fare, Tarring the Shed, Cats in the Kitchen, Tinkers Among the Ruins, Tinkers at Slieve Breagh, Rubbish Dump, Woods at Ardnacashel, Bantry, Crab Apple Tree; , Two After Dark, Colours in Flight, Birds in Autumn; Agnes Martin, Untitled No 7, Friendship, Happy Holiday; Alice Hanratty, Still Life with Turnip, Skillet and Moorish Vase, Flying Elephant, Two Heads, Punch, Procession; Elizabeth Magill, Close, Grayscale (2), Lodge (2); Rita Donagh, Newsprint, Long Meadow; Camille Souter, Waiting for the Sun to Come Out, Djouce Mountain; Anne Madden, Pompeiian Openings VII (No. 14), Winged Figure, Colours of the Wind.

Thursday 4 March 2021 2pm Sculpture in the Hugh Lane Gallery’s Collection

Lecturer: Yseult O’Driscoll, art historian Artists and artworks discussed

Coysevox, Statue of Louis XIV (17th Century) (Musee Carnavalet, Paris) Vincenzo Danti, Statue of Pope Julius III (c1550) (Vatican) Statue of Queen Victoria, (1893) (Kensington Palace) Auguste Rodin, Age of Bronze (1876) (DCG HL) Michelangelo, Dying Slave (c1515) (The Louvre) , Thoroughbred Horse Walking (1880) (DCG HL) Eadweard Muybridge, ‘Hansel’ Walking Free (1887) (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Jacob Epstein, (1910) (DCG HL) Oliver Sheppard, John O’Leary (1903) (DCG HL) , Hugh Lane (1933) (DCG HL) Seamus Murphy, Michael Collins (1949) (DCG HL) Henry Moore, Reclining Figure No. 2 (1953) (DCG HL) Figure of Chac Mool (Pre Colombian) (National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City) Henry Moore, Grey Tube Shelter (1940) (The Tate) Elisabeth Frink, Warrior Cock (1957) (DCG HL) Oisin Kelly, Cattle (1970) (DCG HL) Eilis O’Connell, From a Place No Longer Imagined (1995) (DCG HL) Barry Flanagan, Horse (Mirrored) (Cow Girls: Sheep Boys) (1996) (DCG HL) Barry Flanagan, Nijinski Hare (1985) (Christies) Rita Duffy, Sofa (1996) (DCG HL) Meret Oppenheim, Cup and Saucer Made of Fur (1936) (MOMA)