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George Campbell RHA (1917-1979) RUGGED MOUNTAINS, GLENGARIFF, COUNTY CORK signed lower left...

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George Campbell RHA (1917-1979) RUGGED MOUNTAINS, GLENGARIFF, COUNTY CORK signed lower left...
George Campbell RHA (1917-1979)
RUGGED MOUNTAINS, GLENGARIFF, COUNTY CORK
signed lower left; inscribed with title (in another hand) on reverse
oil on board
51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
Provenance:
Bell Gallery, Belfast
Thought to have been painted circa late 1940s - early 1950s, judging by the title of the works: 'Rugged Country' and 'Evening near the Mountains', which were both exhibited at the IELA in 1950 (catalogue nos. 11 and 26 respectively). A friend of Yeats (whose portrait he drew and which is now in the Sligo Model Arts and Niland Centre), this picture bears testament to Campbell's debt to his older colleague. Wielding his brush as a pencil, Campbell creates a powerfully linear description of rocky outcrops and turbulent sky. As James White has written, Campbell's early landscapes "depend[ed] largely on his recognition of form in the scene rather than its general contours. Rocks are described with light glancing off their surfaces to give embodiment to everything. Skies are in small proportion or else the clouds are heavy masses of light and shade". (George Campbell RHA, Three Candles Press, Dublin, n.d. p.8). The human element, rarely absent from such landscapes is here suggested by pack of roaming dogs, possibly the companions of a group of tinkers encamped nearby.
€6,000-€8,000 (IR £4,700-£6,200 approx.)
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