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Art Historian, Tour Guide, Digital Engagement Coordinator at Crawford Art Gallery Cork, Ireland I read, I drink wine, I live with existential dread
Anchors Aweigh! ⚓
To celebrate 10 years of Cork Harbour Festival, we’re sharing a selection of maritime works in our Collection! 🛳️
From 1845 to 1960, these works depict different areas of Cork Harbour, from the Port of Cork, Cobh, Passage West, and Haulbowline.
Sailing Vessels in Cork Harbour (c.1862) is a maritime painting by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson which is typical of the Cork artist’s style and subject matter.
Did you know in 2021, this work underwent conservation to help maintain its condition?
Happy #WorldWaterDay! 🌊
In the spirit of this year’s theme ‘Glacier Preservation’ we’re sharing Joseph Stafford Gibson’s work Glacier des Bossons, Chamonix.
A painting showing an two women, one in a cream dress with black hair, and one in a blue dress with red hair. They sit on grass in an orchard, under trees with white blossoms.
Artist John Lavery was born on this day in 1856!
To mark his birthday, we’re sharing his work Convalescence, a beautiful painting which reflects Lavery's education and travels in France.
Calling Visual Artists! 🚨
Crawford Art Gallery is excited to announce the inaugural Gibson Travelling Fellowship Award, a significant initiative aimed at expanding international mobility and opportunities for professional visual artists.
Artist James Barry died on this day in 1806. A protégée of John Butts, his career took him from Cork to Dublin, Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, and London.
He is regarded as the most important Irish artists of the 18th century and one of the most significant history painters in Ireland and Britain.
Obsessed with this stone painted coaster gifted to me recently, you’d almost feel guilty covering the medieval cat with the margarita
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❤️ Today is #PopArtDay and what better time to share a work by one of the movement’s best known artists!
🇺🇸 The Seventh American Dream (1998) by Robert Indiana is a playful meditation on success and creative exile.
🤓 Find out about the Grace Kelly connection… crawfordartgallery.ie/work-of-the-...
Between storms Éowyn and Herminia, we give you The Storm Maiden herself.
The Storm Maiden (1851) is likely a depiction of the mythological Ariadne marooned on the island of Naxos. This beautiful watercolour is by Irish artist Daniel Maclise, who was born in Cork #onthisday in 1806.
Black and white studio photo of a longhaired white cat sitting up on a small table draped with brocade fabric. The cat has a very large ruffly bow made of dark fabric attached to the right side of its collar.
Very fancy potato postcard from my collection, date unknown.
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I’m in awe of the height difference between my extremely large cousin and my small baby friend
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A lithograph featuring eight tomatoes scattered across a red and white ground like a picnic blanket or table cloth. The silhouette of a a tall kettle or coffee pot is outlined at bottom right, while the base of the image has black shapes resembling cherries or cherry tomatoes.
Absolute scenes in Drumcondra 🍅
This live aerial view of ‘Cherry Tomato Bridge’ is *impossibly* coming to you from 1968. That’s amore!
Missing my tuxedo and ginger baby cats so much while my apartment is being renovated 😭
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07.01.2025 22:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you I’ll take a look! I’ve bought a kit alright but it would be great to know to advance from beginner to intermediate once the time comes!
07.01.2025 22:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Although I absolutely adore making mead as a hobby, it’s not exactly something you can tip away at on a daily basis. Anyone have any tips on getting into candle making/cross stitch/embroidary?
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Missing my babies while they go on holidays during my apartment works 😭
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A painting of a Caucasian girl wearing a long white dress with billowing sleeves, sits on a leopard skin while holding sprigs of laburnum and lilac
🌸 WORK OF THE WEEK!
Lilac and Laburnum – Portrait of Mabel Arnott (c.1898) is a rare example of a painting by the Cork artist Jennie Ashton Hackett.
🤓 Learn about the artist and how this work relates to both Arnotts department store and The Irish Times here: crawfordartgallery.ie/work-of-the-...
From all of us at Crawford Art Gallery, we would like to take the opportunity to wish you all festive greetings!
The Gallery will remain open for our usual opening hours for the festive period, with the exceptional closure dates of 25 & 26 December, and 1 January.
Mary McCarthy (Director) and Jean O'Donovan (Registrar) stand beside a framed picture on an easel in front of bookshelves in the library of Crawford Art Gallery
✨ NEW ACQUISITION ✨
We’re over the moon to introduce you to a very special new addition to the Collection.
The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1923) is one of Harry Clarke’s exquisite colour illustrations for an edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe.
Love this carpet design by Mainie Jellett featured in Following Threads @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social. Also love that she met Eileen Gray in Paris and that a whole network of modernist Irishwomen had Jellett at its centre.
crawfordartgallery.ie/work-of-the-...
👀 NOW OPEN!
We’re excited to share ALL EYES ON US, our brand new exhibition, with you!
In this exhibition, we are scrutinized by the eyes in 75 contemporary and historic portraits from the Collection, but what happens when we return their gaze?
🎟️ Open daily | Free entry
