Kathryn Milligan traces the history of a 1920s Dublin salon that featured the work of Irish, British and European artists
In March 1923, the Irish Times announced that a new exhibition would shortly open at Mill’s Hall, a gallery at Merrion Row, Dublin. The paper advised its readers that the New Irish Salon offered ‘an exceptional opportunity… to form an opinion as to the merits of the work of the modern school’, with the exhibition foregrounding the work of ‘the younger generation of Irish artists’. The exhibition, which contained about 150 paintings by 60 artists, had been organised by John Crampton Walker (1890–1942), a landscape and still-life painter who had quietly established his artistic reputation through the early years of the 20th century.
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