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Seán Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1977)

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Seán Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1977)
Seán Keating PRHA HRA HRSA (1889-1977) THE AIRMAN signed lower left charcoal drawing 39 by 46cm., 15.5 by 18in. Exhibited: ‘52nd Spring Exhibition of Modern Art’, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside, 1937, catalogue no. 30 (£10-0-0); ’Fourth Waterford Art Exhibition’, 11-22 February 1940, catalogue no. 64 (£10-10-0); ’Seán Keating, PRHA 1889-1977’, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, 7 November – 17 December 1989, catalogue no. 48 (on loan from a private collection) In the early 1930s Keating was commissioned by the Irish army to produce a number of illustrations for their journal, An t-Óglách. One such was The Pilot, a portrait of Airman Hassett drawn at Baldonnel Aerodrome and exhibited at Waddington’s in October 1931. The image was later revisited in its present form as The Airman. This work was sent to Liverpool for exhibition at the Atkinson Art Gallery 1937 spring salon. Two years later it was amongst a batch of works returned to Keating from England, whereupon it was promptly selected by Victor Waddington for inclusion at the 1940 Waterford fine art exhibition. With thanks to Eimear O’Connor, Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD, for her help in cataloguing this work.