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William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968) WAITING FOR

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William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968) WAITING FOR
<B>William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968)</B><BR>WAITING FOR THE EXCURSION TRAIN<BR>signed upper left; inscribed in another hand on reverse<BR>oil on canvas<BR>64 by 76cm., 25 by 30in.<BR>Exhibited:<BR>Royal Academy, London, 1938, catalogue no. 506; Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Glasgow, 1939, catalogue no. 348 (£50); RHA, Dublin, 1939, catalogue no. 181 (£70-0-0); Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast, 1944, catalogue no. 32 (£130-0-0); 'An Exhibition of Recent Paintings by William Conor', Council for the Encouragement of Music and Art (CEMA), Belfast, 1945, catalogue no. 3 Judith C. Wilson, William Conor 1881-1968 - The Life and Work of an Ulster Artist, Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1981, pages 148-150<BR>
Conor’s Waiting for the Excursion Train was also exhibited in the United States during 1939-1940. In February 1939 Victor Waddington took this and other paintings to North America with the aim of establishing a foreign market for contemporary Irish art. Prior to sailing for the US,
Waddington exhibited the works in his Dublin gallery, where they were reviewed by the press. One critic noted "there is human feeling and good composition in Mr Conor's Waiting for the Excursion Train" ('Irish Art For America', The Irish Times, 13 February 1939, page 8).
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