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Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) FAIR DAY

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Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) FAIR DAY
<B>Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)</B><BR>FAIR DAY<BR>signed lower left; typed exhibition label on reverse<BR>oil on canvas<BR>36 by 48cm., 14 by 19in.<BR>Provenance:<BR>Bell Gallery, Belfast; Taylor Gallery, Belfast; Private collection Exhibited: (?) RHA, Dublin, 1965, catalogue no. 17, as Fair Day, Creeslough, Co. Donegal (£75-0-0); McKelvey painted a series of market or fair day scenes in the latter part of his career. During the 1930s he had painted the subject on rare occasions (for an example of such see plate 19, Market Scene circa 1935-36, in S. B. Kennedy, Frank McKelvey, RHA, RUA: A Painter in His Time, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993), but in the last fifteen years of his life exhibited seven market scenes at the RHA. Two of these depicted the fair day in Roundstone, Co. Galway; another was painted in Creeslough, Co. Donegal, and is quite possibly the present work.
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