Frances Kelly
{{short description|Irish artist}}
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| name = Frances Kelly
| image = Frances Kelly (later Boland).jpg
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| birth_name = Frances Josephine Kelly
| birth_date = {{birth date|1908|2|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|8|20|1908|2|14|df=y}}
| death_place = Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland
| nationality = Irish
| education = Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
| field = Painting
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| spouse = {{marriage |Frederick Boland |11 February 1935 |4 December 1985}}
| children = 5; including Eavan Boland
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Frances Josephine Kelly ({{Date|Feb 14, 1908|DMY}} – 2002; usually known as Judy Boland), was an Irish painter.{{Cite journal |date=2014 |title=[Table of Contents] |url=https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?toc=2;volume=41 |url-status=live |journal=PN Review |volume=412 |issue=2 |pages= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627055045/https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?toc=2;volume=41 |archive-date=27 June 2023 |access-date=13 September 2023 |quote=Cover image: a portrait of Eavan Boland as a child, by her mother, the painter Frances Kelly (1908–2002).}}Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 14{{Cite web |title=Frances J. Kelly, 1908–2002 |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/kelly-frances-j-19082002 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627055034/https://artuk.org/discover/artists/kelly-frances-j-19082002 |archive-date=27 June 2023 |access-date=13 September 2023 |website=Art UK}}{{Cite web |title=Frances Kelly ARHA [Associate Member Royal Hibernian Academy], Irish Artist, 1908 - 2002 |url=https://www.adams.ie/irish-artist-directory/frances-kelly-arha-art-sold-at-auction |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628161338/https://www.adams.ie/irish-artist-directory/frances-kelly-arha-art-sold-at-auction |archive-date=28 June 2023 |access-date=13 September 2023 |website=James Adam and Sons Ltd}} She is known for being the wife of Frederick Boland, an Irish diplomat who served as the United Nations representative for Ireland. By the age of 27, when she married, she had attained prominence as a painter.Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 13
Early life
Kelly was born on {{Date|Feb 14, 1908}} in Coolagh Bridge, Drogheda, County Louth to James and Marion Kelly (née Shields).{{Cite web |title=Irish Genealogy |url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1908/01655/1660490.pdf |access-date=2022-08-06 |website=civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie}}Irish Writing London: Volume 2, Post-war to the Present, ed. Tom Herron, Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 46 On 11 February 1935, she married Irish diplomat Frederick Boland in the Church of St Michael, Dún Laoghaire.{{Cite web |title=Irish Genealogy |url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1935/08935/5231728.pdf |access-date=2022-08-06 |website=civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie}}Who was Who: A Companion to Who's Who, containing the biographies of those who died, vol. VIII, 1981-1990, A. & C. Black, p. 71 They had a son, Fergal and four daughters; Jane, Nessa, Mella, and the poet Eavan Boland.{{cite web |title=Irish Press Releases - Press Release Ireland » Stamps mark 50 years of Ireland's UN membership |url=http://www.pressreleaseireland.com/2005/11/02/stamps-mark-50-years-of-ireland%E2%80%99s-un-membership/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508181848/http://www.pressreleaseireland.com/2005/11/02/stamps-mark-50-years-of-ireland%E2%80%99s-un-membership/ |archivedate=2006-05-08 |accessdate=2008-02-04}}Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 16Quirke genealogy and family history: of Clonmel, county Tipperary, Ireland; India, New Zealand, England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States, Terence T. Quirke, 2005, p. 183
Artistic career
Kelly studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, and, from 1932 to 1935, in Paris with the cubist painter Léopold Survage.Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. xx In Ireland, she painted the murals in Tullamore Hospital, and those at the old Russell Hotel, Dublin. Kelly specialized in still life works. Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
She died 20 August 2002 in Donnybrook, Dublin.{{cite web |title=Frances J. Kelly |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920797 |website=Olympedia |access-date=17 December 2023}}
References
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External links
- Whytes [https://web.archive.org/web/20050827203213/http://www.whytes.ie/Biographies/BiogsFtoL.htm Biographies of Irish Artists]
- [https://artuk.org/discover/artists/kelly-frances-j-19082002 Frances J. Kelly on ArtUK]
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Category:20th-century Irish painters
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