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A collection of 15 woodcuts: (1) Custom House Dublin; (2) Canal; (3) Nets Drying Achill Island, Co. Mayo (Original Linocut); (4) Merchants Arch Dublin; (5) Dublin night time street scene people and steps between tall buildings in Dublin; (6) Barge on canal at Hubard Bridge, Dublin.SIGNED by the artist; (7) Man and woman walking together in the dark in the countryside heading into a howling wind and rain; (8) Old Weir bridge Killarney; (9) Leinster House, Dublin; (10) Street and river scene with woman in shawlwalking along pathway by the river wall at Shandon, Cork; (11) River Lee and Cork City; (12) Dublin Book Barrow stall; (13) A Dublin tenement SIGNED and hand coloured by the artist; (14) An uncoloured and unsigned (but with artist's name printed) woodcut of the Dublin tenement as at no.13; (15) Dublin Archway with man walking under it and two people seated at steps opposite looking on. Images range from 8.5 x 5 inches to 2.75 x 2 inches approx. Three woodcuts are at the larger end of scale, two are just below this in size and another 6 are about 6 or 7 x 4 inches. Only one is at the low end of the range and the other three are larger than the smallest. A few have occasional stains and wear. Else majority good - very good. A couple signed by the artist in his own hand and most with his name printed on the woodcuts. Limerick born Fergus O'Ryan RHA ANCA (1911-1989) was also one of the Fingal Artists in Dublin. He lived in North County Dublin. Interestingly Before taking up painting full-time he was an Aer Lingus pilot on long-haul routes (707s/747s) including North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, the Middle East and Europe, from 1966 until 1994. This afforded not only opportunity for drawing, but access to a wide range of art institutions, museums and art literature resources, as well as opportunity to participate in art programmes overseas. After early retirement Fergus Ryan graduated from Trinity College Dublin in theology and biblical studies, which added to an appreciation of the development of art, philosophy, and the ideas that contributed to the development of Western civilisation. Fergus Ryan's principal influences have included 19th century landscape British and French painters, and, especially, the 20th century American realist painter Andrew Wyeth. The artist spent the summer of 2013 in a masterclass in Italy with the noted Israeli painter Israel Hershberg, following the Italian footsteps of Corot and the Grand Tourists, and has studied for shorter periods with numerous well-known American painters, including the portrait painter David Kassan, the egg tempera master Koo Schadler, and the luminist painter Joseph McGurl. Fergus Ryan's work has been exhibited in the Royal Hibernian Academy's annual exhibition since 2008, and at Greenacres Gallery in Wexford. His painting 'Lightkkeeper' was acquired at the RHA by the Government of Ireland and is in the State's collection at Aras an Uachtarain (the Presidential residence). His work includes both landscape and figure in oils and in the revived medieval medium of egg tempera. N° de ref. del artículo 020062
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