The Art of Friendship: Mainie Jellett & Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland
Hi folks! Thank you so much for your kind words on my first blog post ! Let’s hope I keep it up. I travelled home to Dublin mid-July to of course see friends, family & my fabulous dogs, but I also wanted to visit the spring-summer exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland. “The Art of Friendship” is an exhibition featuring the works of Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) and Evie Hone (1894-1955), two Irish women artists who are credited with introducing Modernism to Ireland. They were also friends for most of their lives. Mainie Jellett is the artist behind my favourite artwork at the National Gallery. Decoration Mainie Jellett (1923) The first time I noticed this painting was in December 2022, I was killing time in the gallery and it stopped me in tracks. Perhaps because it was next to some figurative paintings of Ireland, Decoration really stood out in the room. I learned that day it’s an abstract representation of Madonna and Child and to say I was gagged……. The layered ...
