Edward McGuire, RHA.
Author: FALLON, Brian.
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1991. 143 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
With a catalogue by Sally McGuire and Poems and Memoirs by Anthony Cronin, Paul Durcan, Michael Hartnett, Seamus Heaney, Pearse Hutchinson, Michael Longley, John Montague and Francis Stuart.
In the opening words of his Study of Edward McGuire (1932-86), Brian Fallon describes him as ‘the finest Irish portrait painter of his generation, and . . . possibly the finest Irish portraitist since John Butler Yeats’. This book provides a biography and critical study of McGuire and reproduces a veritable Irish portrait gallery of the 1960s and 1970s. It also includes a Catalogue compiled by Sally McGuire, the painter’s widow.
Many poets and writers sat for Edward McGuire at his invitation–often before their reputation was established. Many, in turn, have accepted Sally McGuire’s inspired invitation to write for this book: Seamus Heaney, John Montaque, Michael Longley and Paul Durcan have written new poems for the occasion; Francis Stuart, Anthony Cronin and Pearse Hutchinson have written memoirs about the painter and their portrait.
ISBN: 0716524783
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