THE BACK ROAD Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)
Signature: signed lower left; original inscribed label on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 by 69cm., 20 by 27in. Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1956, catalogue no.1 (£60-0-0) The Back Road was painted when McKelvey was sixty years of age and displays all the best qualities of his mature work. From a shaded road, dappled with light, the eye is drawn unerringly towards the g... gable-end of a simple farm building, with hens pecking at the ground below in a golden glow of light. Dr S. B. Kennedy has written of McKelvey’s work of this period: “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”. (S. B. Kennedy, Frank McKelvey RHA, RUA: A Painter in His Time, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, p.70) more
THE BACK ROAD Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974)
Signature: signed lower left; original inscribed label on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 by 69cm., 20 by 27in. Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1956, catalogue no.1 (£60-0-0) The Back Road was painted when McKelvey was sixty years of age and displays all the best qualities of his mature work. From a shaded road, dappled with light, the eye is drawn unerringly towards the g... gable-end of a simple farm building, with hens pecking at the ground below in a golden glow of light. Dr S. B. Kennedy has written of McKelvey’s work of this period: “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”. (S. B. Kennedy, Frank McKelvey RHA, RUA: A Painter in His Time, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993, p.70) more
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