Know Your Abosch From Your Elvery?

Get the lead out…

he one thing this lockdown has brought out in people is a real desire to reach out and help…

Even though no one is actually allowed to reach out any closer than six feet.

We’ve been charting all the various free online classes, competitions and goodies for the past two weeks, and now, local art historian Rosemarie Devereux has brought her expertise to the table.

In the form of an art history quiz. Whoever gets the most correct answers will win a private tour of the National Gallery Of Ireland with the bould Rosemarie (once the world is back up and running, of course). So, send your answers to [email protected], with Art Quiz in the subject line.

So, coloured pencils at the ready – here are those arty-farty questions…

1. Name the famous Irish artist who lived in Redford House, Greystones between 1910 and 1917?
What was his wife’s name?
With which printing press/guild were they both associated?

2. According to her memoirs Today We Shall Only Gossip, which artist spent many summers holidaying in Greystones?
For which Irish nationalist did she paint Mise Eire in 1908?
In which former boys’ school does the painting hang?

3. Which local artist won last year’s Royal College of Surgeons Art Award for her work titled Add And Subtract The Marks, Poke My Fingers And Even My Head All The Way Through?
What is the subject matter of the work?
Name the exhibition of which it is part.

4. Which area of Wicklow is depicted in Robert Hunter’s 1775 portrait of Peter La Touche (1733-1828)?
Who designed the La Touche monument in Delgany Church?
Where does John Ruskin – the famous English art critic – fit into the La Touche family history?

5. Harry Kernoff is associated with many paintings of Bray and the surrounding areas – however what was the name of his favourite Dublin pub?
In his painting Miscellaneous Objects, North Bray Harbour, County Wicklow 1935, to which politician does he obliquely refer?
Which of his paintings was allegedly the inspiration behind Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame?

6. Which Irish artist and his wife wined and dined the Irish plenipotentiaries during the Anglo Irish Treaty negotiations in London?
Which famous Irish patriot did he paint in the docks in 1916?
Which Irish military leader was his wife allegedly accompanying on a night out in Greystones when their car was ambushed and fired upon?

7. Mervyn Wingfield (1844-1904) was one of the great patrons of Irish Art. With which magnificent estate is he associated?
What was his connection to the National Gallery of Ireland?
Which famous Irish women artist painted the portrait that he donated to the NGI in 1903?

8. Name the only native Greystones artist whose work – Tinkerwoman – hangs in Aras an Uachtarain?

Hall Of Mirrors by Manus Hingerty

With which art group was she associated from 1965?
At which school did she teach until her retirement in 1990?

9. Our wonderful bear sculpture situated on the sea front was kindly donated by Dermot and Helen Dwyer in memory of their daughter Caroline. Who is the sculptor?
Where was the work executed?
Name two other areas where similar Bears hang out?

10. What was the Harry Clark Studios’ connection to Greystones?
Harry Clarke’s wife was an artist – name her?
Name one of her paintings with the name Greystones in the title

11. Name the Irish woman avant garde artist associated with two of the stained glass windows for The Holy Rosary Church?
What was the name of the Stained glass cooperative with which she was associated from the 1930s onwards?
With which other avant garde women artist did she train in Paris?

12. In 1890, Rev. James O’ Hannay became curate of Christ Church, Delgany. By what other name was he known?
Which club did he found at Bellevue in early 1890s?
Which famous Irish artist collaborated on many of his books?

Again, answers to [email protected] by 10pm on Sunday, April 5th. The winner – and the answers – will be published on Monday 6th. Now, check out our interview with Rosemarie here.