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John Frederick Hunter RUA (1893-1951)

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John Frederick Hunter RUA (1893-1951)
John Frederick Hunter RUA (1893-1951) STORMY HEADLAND signed lower right; exhibition label inscribed with title and the artist's address on reverse oil on board 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in. Exhibited: RUA, Belfast, 1950, catalogue no. 50 Born in Manchuria but educated in Larne (Co. Antrim), Belfast and at TCD, Hunter was part of a progressive group of artists in the north who exhibited briefly together as the Ulster Unit. During a period at the RCA in London in the early twenties he learnt the principles of modernism as they were then being espoused by Herbert Read, influencing his future work. In 1923 he was appointed the first Inspector of Art to the Ministry of Education in Northern Ireland. He exhibited regularly at the RUA and with the Ulster Arts Club and the Waddington Galleries, Dublin. See Snoddy, pp.208-209.€1200-€1500 (IR £900-£1200 approx.)
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