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Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) AN IRISH FARMY

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Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) AN IRISH FARMY
<B>Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)</B><BR>AN IRISH FARMYARD<BR>signed lower left<BR>oil on canvas<BR>41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.<BR>Provenance:<BR>F. G. Davis & Sons, Belfast; Whence purchased in the 1940s by the uncle of the present owner Painted circa 1940s and in the original frame of F. G. Davis & Sons, Belfast. In his monograph on McKelvey, Dr S. B. Kennedy noted that in works from this period "the subject-matter is unchanged from earlier decades, but the scale of colours is brighter than before and the brushwork is more delicate with at times a feathery quality to it. … These compositions … represent a way of life on the eve of change, when farming began to assume its contemporary 'industrial' character. The farm buildings depicted are traditional in style and construction, the chickens run freely about the farmyard, all exist in perpetual summer. It is the recording of such scenes that, apart from the aesthetic qualities of his art, makes the work of Frank McKelvey so appealing to us nowadays" (S. B. Kennedy, Frank McKelvey RHA RUA: A Painter in His Time, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, page 70).
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