Artist: Evie Hone HRHA (1894-1955) Title: Composition Signature: signed lower right Medium: gouache Size: 26 x 21cm (10 x 8in) Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin Mrs. Brendan O'Brien Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot Evie Hone was a Dublin born Irish painter and stained glass artist. She was related to the artist Nathaniel Hone Her most important works are probably the East Window for the Chapel at Eton College, Windsor, England (1949-1952) and My Four Green Fields, now located in Government Buildings. They were commissioned for the Irish Government's Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Like her companion Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster Technical Institute in London and worked under André Lhote and Albert Gleizes in Paris before returning to become influential in the modern movement in Ireland, she was one of the founders of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. Evie Hone was extremely devout; she spent time in an Anglican Convent in 1925 and converted to Catholicism in 1937. This may have influenced her in decision to begin working in stained glass. Initially she worked as a member of the stained glass co-operative An Túr Gloine before setting up a studio of her own in Rathfarnham, Dublin.
Artist: Evie Hone HRHA (1894-1955) Title: Composition Signature: signed lower right Medium: gouache Size: 26 x 21cm (10 x 8in) Provenance: Dawson Gallery, Dublin Mrs. Brendan O'Brien Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot Evie Hone was a Dublin born Irish painter and stained glass artist. She was related to the artist Nathaniel Hone Her most important works are probably the East Window for the Chapel at Eton College, Windsor, England (1949-1952) and My Four Green Fields, now located in Government Buildings. They were commissioned for the Irish Government's Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Like her companion Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster Technical Institute in London and worked under André Lhote and Albert Gleizes in Paris before returning to become influential in the modern movement in Ireland, she was one of the founders of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. Evie Hone was extremely devout; she spent time in an Anglican Convent in 1925 and converted to Catholicism in 1937. This may have influenced her in decision to begin working in stained glass. Initially she worked as a member of the stained glass co-operative An Túr Gloine before setting up a studio of her own in Rathfarnham, Dublin.
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