Homecoming: Walter Osborne's Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900

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The University of Notre Dame's Raclin Murphy Museum of Art invites you to Notre Dame Dublin's O'Connell House to celebrate the publication of the exhibition catalogue Homecoming: Walter Osborne's Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900 on Thursday 25 September. RSVP to dublin@nd.edu by 22 September.

Wine and light refreshments will be served.

The catalogue for this exhibition includes essays by Brendan Rooney, Head Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; Kathryn Milligan, Assistant Librarian, Edward Murphy Library, National College of Arts & Design, Dublin; Logan Sisley, Head of Collection at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Judith Stapleton, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame; and the Raclin Murphy Museum Curator who organized the exhibition, Cheryl K. Snay, Curator of European and American Art before 1900. Research assistance was provided by Aoife-Marie Buckley, The Donald and Marilyn Keough Curatorial Fellow at the Raclin Murphy Museum.

The exhibition catalog was published by D. Giles Limited. The 192-page hardcover publication has 116 color illustrations, including images of all the works in the exhibition. The catalogue can be purchased on the night.

About Homecoming: Walter Osborne's Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900:

The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art presents the first monographic exhibition in forty years of the work of Walter Osborne, one of Ireland’s most-heralded artists. The exhibition charts Osborne’s trajectory from his student days in Dublin and Antwerp through his sojourn in Brittany and his early practice in England before returning to his native city to care for his niece and aging parents following the death of his beloved sister Violet in 1893. Through his depictions of Dublin’s streets, parks, public spaces, domestic interiors and gardens, countryside, and most importantly its people, a vision of a vibrant, if divided, Ireland emerges.

Osborne’s experiences abroad and his commercial acumen helped establish Dublin’s unique brand of Modern painting rife with the possibility of change. Iconic works by the artist on loan from the National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane Gallery, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, and private collectors in Ireland and the United States offer a rich tapestry of life and art in Ireland at the close of the nineteenth century.

This exhibition is made possible by the Donald and Marilyn Keough Foundation with additional support from the J. Brien and Maggie Murphy Endowment for Exhibitions, James and Barbara O’Connell Family Fund for Exhibitions, Friends of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, Charter Membership, and in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies.