FARMYARD COUNTY ANTRIM, c.1950-53 Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)
Signature: inscribed in pencil on stretcher: 'Farmyard, Co. Antrim' and numbered '3' Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 38 by 51cm., 15 by 20in. Literature: S. B. Kennedy, Frank McKelvey RHA RUA: A Painter in his Time, Irish Academic Press, 1993, pp.67, 70, 85, illustrated plate 29 In his monograph on McKelvey, Dr S. B. Kennedy wrote of this work: “Two compositions which probably date from about this time (the 1950s) are Roadway with a Farm (plate 28) and Farmyard, Co. Antrim (p... plate 29). In these the subject-matter is unchanged from earlier decades, but the scale of colours is brighter than before and the brushwork is more delicate with at times a feathery quality to it. … These compositions of the 1950s, too, represent a way of life on the eve of change, when farming began to assume its contemporary ‘industrial’ character. The farm buildings depicted are traditional in style and construction, the chickens run freely about the farmyard, all exist in perpetual summer. It is the recording of such scenes that, apart from the aesthetic qualities of his art, makes the work of Frank McKelvey so appealing to us nowadays” (op. cit., p. 70) more
FARMYARD COUNTY ANTRIM, c.1950-53 Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)
Signature: inscribed in pencil on stretcher: 'Farmyard, Co. Antrim' and numbered '3' Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 38 by 51cm., 15 by 20in. Literature: S. B. Kennedy, Frank McKelvey RHA RUA: A Painter in his Time, Irish Academic Press, 1993, pp.67, 70, 85, illustrated plate 29 In his monograph on McKelvey, Dr S. B. Kennedy wrote of this work: “Two compositions which probably date from about this time (the 1950s) are Roadway with a Farm (plate 28) and Farmyard, Co. Antrim (p... plate 29). In these the subject-matter is unchanged from earlier decades, but the scale of colours is brighter than before and the brushwork is more delicate with at times a feathery quality to it. … These compositions of the 1950s, too, represent a way of life on the eve of change, when farming began to assume its contemporary ‘industrial’ character. The farm buildings depicted are traditional in style and construction, the chickens run freely about the farmyard, all exist in perpetual summer. It is the recording of such scenes that, apart from the aesthetic qualities of his art, makes the work of Frank McKelvey so appealing to us nowadays” (op. cit., p. 70) more
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