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Gladys Maccabe MBE HRUA ROI FRSA (1918-2018)
Estimate:
€4,000 - €6,000
Sold
€10,500
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
24 by 72in. (61 by 182.9cm)
Description
Title: GYMKHANA
Note: Gladys Maccabe, who passed away earlier this year, was a prolific painter and important figure in the arts in Northern Ireland. She was born in Randalstown, Co Antrim and educated at Brookvale Collegiate School in Belfast. At the age of 16, she had a picture published in the Royal Drawing Society magazine and went on to study drawing, painting and fashion design at Belfast College of Art. In 1949, she married a childhood friend, Max Maccabe. He was encouraged to paint by Gladys and the pair began exhibiting together in Belfast, London and Dublin. At this time in Northern Ireland, there was no art society that would accept women as members. In 1957, Gladys and fellow artists Renée Bickerstaff, Deborah Brown and Mercy Hunter, among others, founded the Ulster Society of Women Artists. From the original ten founding members, membership today is one hundred and twenty-five women from all fields of the visual arts. During the 1960s Gladys was a fashion and arts correspondent working for newspapers and television. She was Northern Ireland Art Critic for the Irish Independent and the Irish News and wrote columns for the Sunday Independent, Leisure Painter and the Ulster Tatler. She was also fashion correspondent for the Belfast News Letter and BBC Northern Ireland. In 1961 Gladys was elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and in 1980 she was awarded an Honorary MA degree by the Queen's University Belfast. Gladys was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the arts by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 21 November 2000. Examples of her work are in The Ulster Museum, The Royal Ulster Academy, The Arts Council of Ireland Collection, The Imperial War Museum and many other permanent collections.
Note: Gladys Maccabe, who passed away earlier this year, was a prolific painter and important figure in the arts in Northern Ireland. She was born in Randalstown, Co Antrim and educated at Brookvale Collegiate School in Belfast. At the age of 16, she had a picture published in the Royal Drawing Society magazine and went on to study drawing, painting and fashion design at Belfast College of Art. In 1949, she married a childhood friend, Max Maccabe. He was encouraged to paint by Gladys and the pair began exhibiting together in Belfast, London and Dublin. At this time in Northern Ireland, there was no art society that would accept women as members. In 1957, Gladys and fellow artists Renée Bickerstaff, Deborah Brown and Mercy Hunter, among others, founded the Ulster Society of Women Artists. From the original ten founding members, membership today is one hundred and twenty-five women from all fields of the visual arts. During the 1960s Gladys was a fashion and arts correspondent working for newspapers and television. She was Northern Ireland Art Critic for the Irish Independent and the Irish News and wrote columns for the Sunday Independent, Leisure Painter and the Ulster Tatler. She was also fashion correspondent for the Belfast News Letter and BBC Northern Ireland. In 1961 Gladys was elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and in 1980 she was awarded an Honorary MA degree by the Queen's University Belfast. Gladys was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the arts by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 21 November 2000. Examples of her work are in The Ulster Museum, The Royal Ulster Academy, The Arts Council of Ireland Collection, The Imperial War Museum and many other permanent collections.
Medium
oil on board
Signature
signed lower right
