Mildred Anne Butler

Mildred Anne was born in 1858 in Kilmurry, a Georgian House near Thomastown and was the youngest daughter of Captain Henry Butler, a grandson of the Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret. Knowledge of Butler's life and working methods are almost entirely on the watercolours themselves and on her diaries, which are preserved for most years between 1892 and 1938. Butler's quirky titles such as Ancient Rubbish, A Tit-Bit and Chucked; Green Eyed Jealousy: Ravens amongst trees show the artist's playful sensibility. Her father, Henry Butler, was an amateur artist favouring subjects from nature he encountered on journeys abroad, in particular exotic plants and animals. Butler spent most of her life in the family home at Kilmurry with frequent trips to England and the continent. She continued painting until the 1930s when she stopped painting due to arthritis and died in 1941, aged 83.

Butler's father Henry may have encouraged her to paint in her youth but her artistic training began in London in the late 1880s with the watercolourist Paul Jacob Naftel, whom she credited for her understanding of watercolours. Butler like her friend Rose Barton, who also studied under Naftel, did not follow his choice of landscape, instead she devoted herself to cattle, birds, and flower gardens. She continued her studies at Westminster School of Art under William Frank Calderon who specialised in animal painting and later opened a school of animal painting. At Frank Calderon's School she studied the subject of cows, and it was that work for which she was elected to the Old Society, the Royal Academy.({{Harvnb|Huish|1904| p=94}})

In her late twentieths, Butler made annual visits to the continent until the outbreak of war. She travelled to France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy. In Paris, she studied drawing, figure drawing and fine art painting. While in Paris she became associated with the Newlyn school and went on to spend the summers of 1894 and 1895 in Newlyn in Cornwall. Newlyn at that time was the centre for a group of artists who were interested in plein-air subjects, many of whom had previously studied in France. She was attached to the Newlyn School, and Norman Garstin's studio in particular alongside contemporaries such as Walter Osborne and Sir John Lavery. Garstin like Osborne had been a pupil of the Antwerp master Charles Verlat. Butler established a friendship with Luke Fildes, Stanhope Forbes whom she met at Newlyn. The influence of the Limerick-born Garstin, and Forbes, and the contact with the Newlyn School informed Butler's development and remained an important influence on her work throughout her life.

Butler continuously exhibited throughout her career and proved herself to be a keen business woman capable of marketing her watercolours successfully with patrons such as Queen Mary of Teck and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. She was a member of the Society of Lady Artists.{{cite magazine|title=Butler, Mildred|magazine=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|page=265|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA265}} She was one of the first nine academicians elected by the Ulster Academy of Arts in 1930. She was granted full membership into the Royal Watercolour Society in 1937, having been an associate member since 1896.

File:Meditation (1889) by Mildred Anne Butler.jpeg

Butler was a painter in oil and watercolour of landscape, genre and animal subjects. Her range of work was dominated by the theme of nature and her subject matter reflected the scenes of domesticity surrounding her Kilmurry home. Butler's house was a huge source of inspiration throughout her life, its garden and surroundings, provided passion for many of her paintings which often included the surrounding gardens, pasture and countryside. These themes interested her particularly remained a constant subject. She also did genre views of villages and towns on the continent.

Butler painted en plein air with instils her work with animated freshness, which she depicts with a degree of realism and expression. Paintings such as Meditation (1889) were considered revolutionary by the art establishment and by critics of the day. The critic of the magazine Hearth and Home described her habit of painting in the open air, rare at the time, and said it give an actuality and a freshness to the painting.

Butler's principal works have been A Sheltered Corner (1891) R.A., A High Court of Justice (1892) R.A., Green-Eyed Jealousy (1894) R.A., The Morning Bath (1896) R.A., Raiders from the Rookery (1896) R.A., Cead Mile Failte (1898) R.A. Works that she was elected to the R.W.S. in 1896 include Dull December, Loiterers and Beside the Pond. Sunshine Holiday (1898) R.W.S. was another notable work. Her works appears in a number of collections including Morning Bath in the Tate and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Ulster Museum in Belfast and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. A small watercolour of crows hangs in Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor. Throughout her career Butler's works were showcased as far abroad as the United States and Japan.

She first exhibited at the Dudley Gallery in Piccadilly. She exhibited in various galleries and institutions including the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Watercolour Society of Ireland, the Belfast Ramblers' Sketching Club, the Royal Academy (1889–1902) and the Royal Watercolour Society. In 1906 she exhibited at the Watercolour Society of Ireland, in Dublin, with works such as The Garden Cart and later that winter in London, at the Old Water-Colour Society where the exhibition included pieces such as Where the Grass Grows Green. In Spring 1919 an exhibition at the Royal Watercolour Society, London, included Tramore Strand, Low water (1889) The Delegates (1923) was exhibited at the New Irish Salon.

In 1980, watercolours, drawings and sketches, together with notes, letters and diaries were sold as part of the artist's studio sale. Some were sold in Ireland and others at a studio sale at Christie's in London. The National Gallery of Ireland purchased seven fine watercolours for its permanent collection. Fota House in Cork contains one of her works. An Exhibition of Butler's work was held by the Kilkenny Art Gallery Society at Kilkenny Castle in June 1981 which included pieces such as Where the Grass Grows Green (1904)({{Harvnb|Crookshank|1992}}) It was further exhibited at the Bank of Ireland, Baggot Street, Dublin in August 1981 and at Christies, King Street, London in September 1981. In 1987 Kilkenny Art Gallery, Kilkenny, presented an exhibition Mildred Anne Butler, which included Cats Chasing Birds (1918). Between August–September 1987 the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, presented an exhibition Mildred Anne Butler 1858-1941. An Irish Edwardian Watercolour Collection which included Figures beside a horse and chaise (1896) In April to June 1988 Ulster Museum and Art Gallery, Belfast, presented an exhibition Mildred Anne Butler which included Cats Chasing Birds (1918). She is celebrated on a Postage stamp in an An Post collection for female Irish artists.

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• A Sheltered Corner (1891) R.A.
• A High Court of Justice (1892) R.A.
• Green-Eyed Jealousy (1894) R.A.
• The Morning Bath (1896) R.A., Tate, London.
• Beside the Pond (1896) R.W.S. Election 1896
• Dull December (1896) R.W.S. Election 1896
• Loiterers (1896) R.W.S. Election 1896
• Raiders from the Rookery (1896) R.A.
• Sunshine Holiday (1898) R.W.S.
• Cead Mile Failte (1898) R.A.
• Toll from the Turnip Cart (1896)
• The Wanderers (1898), Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
• The Garden Cart
• Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry
• Tramore Strand, Low water 1889
• Where the Grass Grows Green
• The Delegates (1923)
• Dandelions and Scillas
• The Garden Path (1922)
• Procession through the bluebells
• Madonna Lilies
• Side-cars
• Foxgloves
• Poppies (1904)
• The Lily Pond (1897)
• In the Conservatory, Kilmurry
• View in Pembroke Street, Dublin
• A garden path, probably Kilmurry
• A summer's day
• Hollyhocks
• Winter Survival
• Low water, Tramore, Waterford (1919)
• Station cabbies (1898)
• Poppies at Kilmurry: View across a wild Garden; and In flower
• Autumn by the Lake (1890)
• Figures beside a horse and chaise
• Horses grazing (1998)
• Cats Chasing Birds (1918)
• Peacocks
• The Spring Garden, Kilmurry
• Study of a Delphinium
• Sheep in a meadow
• The Grinding Wheel, Kilmurry
• Cattle grazing, Kilmurry
• Edge of the Woods
• Cattle in the shade, Kilmurray (1917)
• Lismore, Waterford
• Two cats, Kilmurry
• The Kilmurry Estate
• Meditation (1889)
• Cattle Resting in a Summer Meadow (1899)
• A Dead Magpie in a Tree
• A Trout Stream
• Procession through the Bluebells
• Crucifixion and hollyhocks
• Lilac Phlox
• The Farmyard

Other

• An Post Postage stamp

Other Works

• "Chucked; Green Eyed Jealousy": Ravens amongst trees'
• Spring Garden (1916)
• The Sentinels: Rooks in the snow (1895)
• A Nap, Kilmurry, Co Kilkenny
• The Flowers of August (1900)
• Peacocks and Peahens on a Sunlit Lawn
• At Lismore, Co Waterford (1913)
• Fine Feathers
• Threashing in a riverside Field (1910)
• Peacocks at Kilmurry (1910)
• Doves at the Edge of a Garden
• A Cat stalking Pigeons
• Rose Peany
• Crows resting in a snow covered Landscape
• A Summer Border (1914)
• Young Jackdaws
• Aix les Bains
• A bluebell wood
• Kilmurry
• A French Chateau (1901)
• Cattle grazing
• Trees by a meadow

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• List of Irish artists
• List of Irish botanical illustrators

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a. {{Note label|A|a|none}} The Royal Academy in London refused to show artists who painted in the French style, young painters had to form their own society in order to exhibit. This attitude waned throughout the 1890s.

b. {{Note label|B|b|none}} The Morning Bath (1896) was amongst the few watercolours that were purchased by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest and was the second work by a female artist to be purchased (the first was Anna Lea Merritt's 'Love Locked Out' in 1890) and was presented to the Tate.

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| title = Meditation 1889

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[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?entry=Mildred%20Anne%20Butler&searchtype=p Mildred Anne Butler] sold through Christie's.

[http://browse.sothebys.com/?count=20&hp=&hpc=&i=1&omit=BI|WDN&q=MILDRED+ANNE+BUTLER&sla=1&slaform=1&u1=q Mildred Anne Butler], Sotheby's

[http://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Mildred-Anne-Butler/402CDC792B82C490/Artworks?Promo=3DE4F191D6FAA70A Mildred Anne Butler], [http://www.mutualart.com MutualArt].

[http://www2.arnes.si/~bcebul/ie-1633.jpg Mildred Anne Butler Stamp].

{{Citation

| last = Crookshank

| first = Anne

| author2 = Knight of Glin

| title = Mildred Anne Butler 1858-1941

| url = http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=10132052106&author=Butler%2C+Mildred+Anne&browse=1&qwork=4365204&qsort=&page=1

| year = 1981

| orig-year = 1981

| publisher = Trustees Of The Late Doreen Archer Houblon, Kilkenny.

| quote = Catalogue to an Exhibition held by the Kilkenny Art Gallery Society at Kilkenny Castle from June 1981.

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{{Citation

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| first = Mildred Anne

| author2 = National Gallery of Ireland

| author2-link = National Gallery of Ireland

| title = Mildred Anne Butler 1858-1941

| url = http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=10276650758&browse=1&qwork=4365204&qsort=&page=1

| publisher = Crawford Municipal Art Gallery.

| quote = Watercolour Collection exhibition catalogue.

}}.

{{cite web

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| title = Morning Bath exhibited 1896

| publisher = Tate

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[http://www.whytes.ie/4ImageDisplay.asp?AUCTION=20080929&IMAGE=132 Toll from the Turnip Cart (1896)], [http://www.whytes.ie Whytes].

[http://www.hughlane.ie/online_catalogue/work-detail.php?objectid=177 The Wanderers (1898)], Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4902500 The Garden Cart] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275803 Doves outside the Conservatory, Kilmurry]. Christie's: [http://www.christies.com Fine Art Auctions].

[http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=3ZKSH Tramore Strand, Low water (1889)], Sotheby's.

[http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159592834 Where the Grass Grows Green]. Sotheby's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275804 The Delegates (1923)] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1785998 Dandelions and Scillas] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1785999 The Garden Path (1922)] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159594019 Procession through the bluebells], Sotheby's [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House].

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275999 Side-cars] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275943 Foxgloves] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275941 Poppies (1904)] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2040641 The Lily Pond (1897)] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.jorgensenfineart.com/gallery1/pages/butler.htm In the Conservatory, Kilmurry], [http://www.jorgensenfineart.com Jorgensen Fine Art Gallery].

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275942 In the conservatory] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=47QL3 View in Pembroke Street, Dublin] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4493783 A garden path, probably Kilmurry] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=R3BX a summer's day], Sotheby's [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House].

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275940 Hollyhocks] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1469714 Winter Survival] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4493784 Low water, Tramore, Waterford (1919)] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3907861 Station cabbies (1898)] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275941 Poppies at Kilmurry: View across a wild Garden; and In flower] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2040640 Autumn by the Lake (1890)] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2040642 Figures beside a horse and chaise (1896)] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=3PMZG horses grazing], Sotheby's [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House].

Royal Academy ArchivesRAA/PD/12(1) Chantrey Bequest acquisitions 1877-1931.

[http://www.whytes.ie/4ImageDisplay.asp?AUCTION=20071126&IMAGE=130 Kilmurry - Cats Chasing Birds (1918)], [http://www.whytes.ie Whytes Irish art auctioneers].

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4275828 Peacocks] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4493782 The Spring Garden, Kilmurry] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3916928 Study of a Delphinium] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4100077 Sheep in a meadow] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4100078 The Grinding Wheel, Kilmurry] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5067635 Cattle grazing, Kilmurry] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=47W3L Edge of the Woods], Sotheby's [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House].

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5221973 Cattle in the shade, Kilmurray] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4289326 Lismore, Waterford] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4704749 Two cats, Kilmurry] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5067571 The Kilmurry Estate] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5235064 A Trout Stream ] sold through Christie's.

[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1054062 The Flowers of August (1900)] sold through Christie's.

Other works sold through Christie's, [http://www.christies.com Fine Art Auctions], including [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1054064 The Sentinels: Rooks in the snow (1895)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=666923 A French Chateau (1901)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=188251 Peacocks at Kilmurry (1910)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1015864 Threashing in a riverside Field (1910)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=883740 At Lismore, Co. Waterford (1913)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2681227 A Summer Border (1914)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1054065 A bluebell wood], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1432226 Aix les Bains], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=883580 A Nap, Kilmurry, Co. Kilkenny], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3730143 Rose Peany (1916)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3743132 Cattle grazing], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3109461 Peacocks], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1054063 Chucked; Green Eyed Jealousy: Ravens amongst trees (1894)], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=883578 A Cat stalking Pigeons], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=883739 Young Jackdaws], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1015863 Peacocks and Peahens on a Sunlit Lawn], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3916928 Fine Feathers], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1420234 Crows resting in a snow covered Landscape Christies], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3042493 Doves at the Edge of a Garden], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3735642 Kilmurry], [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2681226 Spring Garden (1916)].

Other works from Sotheby's, [http://www.sothebys.com Art Auction House], including [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=X9B3 madonna lilies], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=33ZXG Peacocks], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=33ZXG Summer garden], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=R3BZ Edge of the Wood], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=X99X Sheep grazing in the pasture], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=X9B5 Trees by a meadow], [http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=33ZXM The Cottage Garden].

Other works from websites including [http://data.bidmaster.co.uk/devere/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=A34&LotRef=22 The Farmyard], [http://www.prints.com/prints.php/Mildred_Anne_Butler/Madonna_Lilies/?artist_id=6856&print_id=5209491 Madonna Lilies], [http://www.shopcreator.com/mall/productpage.cfm/NationalGalleryofIreland/_cp7/284130/Lilac%20Phlox%2C%20Mildred%20Ann%20Butler%201912. Lilac Phlox].

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| last = Chamot

| first = Mary

| author2 = Dennis Farr

| author3 = Martin Butlin

| author3-link = Martin Butlin

| title = The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

| ol = 14812923M

| volume = I

| year = 1964

| publisher = Oldbourne Press

| location = London

| oclc = 503229940

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• {{Citation

| last = Crookshank

| first = Anne

| author2 = National Gallery of Ireland

| author2-link = National Gallery of Ireland

| title = Mildred Anne Butler, 1858-1941 (Lives of Irish Artists)

| date = May 1992

| publisher = Town House

| location = Dublin

| isbn = 978-0-948524-37-0

|ref={{Harvid|Crookshank|1992}}

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• {{Citation

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| first = Marcus B.

| title = British water-colour art in the first year of the reign of King Edward the Seventh and during the century covered by the life of the Royal society of painters in water colours / illustrated by the collection of drawings dedicated by that Society to Their Majesties the King and Queen at their coronation

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vNzQnr3nGMwC

| edition = First

| year = 1904

| publisher = The Fine art Society, A. & C. Black

| isbn = 978-1-4437-6842-9

| page = 94

| chapter = Mildred Anne Butler, A.R.W.S

| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vNzQnr3nGMwC&pg=PA94

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• National Gallery of Ireland, Irish Women Artists 1987
• County Life v.182, 25 August 1988, 124
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