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COTTAGES, WEST OF IRELAND Michael Augustine Power O'Malley (1870-1946)
Signature: signed lower right Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in. Provenance: Provenance:Whyte's, 8 May 2002, lot 214; Private collection Michael Augustine Power O’Malley of Dungarvan, County Waterford studied art in France and Italy and later emigrated to the USA. In 1904 he went to New York and did book illustrations and covers for Li... ife, The Literary Digest, Harper's and Puck. He travelled to the west coast where he advised John Ford on film settings and painted sets for Cecil B. de Mille's epic The King of Kings. O'Malley made regular painting trips back to Ireland. In October 1912 Maud Gonne attended an exhibition of O’Malley’s work in Dublin. Her opinion of his work was ‘as clever and far more sincere than most of the paintings I have seen in France’. She subsequently wrote a letter of introduction for the artist to New Yorker John Quinn, an Irish-American lawyer, art collector and Celtic enthusiast in which she drew comparisons between Power O’Malley and Édouard Manet. Power O’Malley exhibited widely and with great success in New York City, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, San Antonio, London (Beaux Arts Gallery) and in Ireland in Dublin and in the Crawford in Cork (1940). Memorial exhibitions were held in New Rochelle and Rochester New York in 2002-03 and 2010 respectively. His work can be found in public and private collections in both countries. For further reading see Snoddy pp.486-487 more