26.11.2024, 18:30 P.M.
City Views: Art, Architecture and Dublin's Painters by Dr Kathryn Milligan, art historian, author of Painting Dublin: Visualising a changing city, 1886 – 1949 (2021)
This is the eighth talk in the Irish Georgian Society and Dublin City Council's talk series, Depicting Dublin: understanding Dublin’s architecture, urban morphology and social history through maps, prints, drawings and photographs.
ABSTRACT: Taking the theme of the urban environment in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Irish art, this lecture will explore how Dublin's painters represented the city's architectural landscape. Exploring areas of the city that have changed significantly, such as Walter Osborne's Patrick Street, Harry Kernoff's docklands, and Flora Mitchell's quaysides, themes around artistic choice, composition, and authenticity will come to the fore: probing the complexity between the artwork as a pictorial record, and painting as an expressive act.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Kathryn Milligan is an art historian specialising in nineteenth and twentieth century Irish art. Kathryn was the inaugural ESB Fellow at the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland, and an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, UCD: she is now Assistant Librarian at the Edward Murphy Library, NCAD. Her monograph, Painting Dublin, 1886 - 1949: Visualising a changing city, was published by Manchester University Press in 2020, with other recent publications including essays on James Malton, Walter Osborne, and Jack B. Yeats.
IMAGE: Edmond Delrenne, Sackville Street in Ruins, 1916, charcoal and watercolour with highlights on paper, Photo copyright of National Gallery of Ireland.
Talks take place at 6.30pm in the Irish Georgian Society's City Assembly House, 58 South William Street, Dublin 2. Talk subscribers can also choose to watch the talks live online. A zoom link to watch the talk live will be issued the day before each talk. Additionally, all talk subscribers will be issued with a recording of the talk the day after, which they can watch for a further two-week period.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This talk is part of the Irish Georgian Society's Conservtion Education Programme which is supported by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The Society also wishes to thank Dublin City Council's Heritage Office for partnering on this talk series, and The Heritage Council for their support of the Irish Georgian Society.
If you are interested in other talks relating to architecture, check out the Ireland Architecture Diary.
