Sean Rainbird selects Flanders Fields by William Crozier, a new acquisition for the National Galllery of Ireland
William Crozier (1930-2011) was well known in Ireland, particularly after the 1970s when his works inspired by the Irish landscape were becoming appreciated and began to be collected here. He first visited Ireland in 1962, the year he painted Flanders Fields and he became an Irish citizen a decade later. He divided his time between Kilcoe in West Cork and Hampshire.
Was Daniel Maclise a proto-Nationalist painter? Peter Murray thinks not, in his assessment of the National Gallery’s recently restored masterpiece.
Christiaan Corlett looks at a valuable, but little-known portfolio of photographs taken by Victorian doctor Ephraim MacDowel Cosgrave, now in the collection of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Vivienne Roche belongs to a generation who transformed what sculpture could be. ‘I don’t consider myself an object-maker. I work with place and change’, she tells Brian McAvera while her exhibition continues at the Royal Hibernian Academy