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William
Orpen, (Academic Portraitist and War Artist)
Walter Osborne, (Irish
Impressionist)
Sean O'Sullivan, (Portraiture)
Sarah Purser, (Portraitist
and Stained Glass Artist)
George "AE" Russell,
(Landscapes, Portraits, Murals)
William Sadler II, (Landscape
Painter and Illustrator)
James Sinton Sleator, (Portraits,
Still Life)
John Noel Smith, (Abstract
Painter)
Mary Swanzy, (Portraiture,
Abstract Figure Paintings)
Francis Tansey, (Contemporary
Abstract Artist)
Leo Whelan, (Portraitist and
Genre Painter)
Anne Butler Yeats, (Theatre
Designer and Painter)
In addition, the Hugh Lane Gallery honours
two other Irish artists, connected with Dublin and visual
arts in Ireland. In 2001, the gallery purchased and reconstructed
the London Reece Mews studio of the Irish Expressionist artist Francis
Bacon, while a special display room is dedicated to the Irish-American
abstract artist Sean Scully.
For details of other art galleries, see Dublin
Art Venues.
Dublin Sculptors
John
Henry Foley (Noted exponent of Anglo-Irish Style)
Albert Power (Nationalist,
Classical Realist sculptor)
Oisin Kelly (Foremost sculptor
of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art)
Alexandra Wejchert
(Abstract, stainless steel sculpture)
Conor Fallon (Contemporary
steel sculpture)
Rowan Gillespie (Outstanding
contemporary figurative sculptor)
Visual Arts Education
One reason for the high number of talented
artists in Dublin, is the presence in the Irish capital of several high
quality arts schools and colleges, of which the foremost is the National
College of Art and Design (NCAD). The history
of Irish art shows that from NCAD's beginnings as a private drawing
school in Dublin, by 1811 it had grown to include four schools (Figure
Drawing, Landscape and Ornamental Drawing, Architectural Drawing and Modelling).
Relaunched in 1877 as the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, it spawned
a number of craft classes, (eg. in enamels, metalwork, stained glass)
and a life class given initially by Sir William Orpen. Renamed again in
1936, the National College of Art continued to expand, and since its final
metamorphosis into the National College of art and Design (1971) it encompasses
4 main faculties - Design, Education, Fine Art and Visual Culture, plus
History of Art - covering traditional fine arts like painting, sculpture,
ceramics, stained glass, plus state of the art printing, graphic design,
digital arts and a range of commercial and industrial design facilities.
With over over seven hundred and fifty full-time students plus eight hundred
students studying evening classes, NCAD has become a major contributor
to the health of Irish art.
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