The sunlit bench

Details

Frank McKelvey, R.H.A., R.U.A. (1895-1974)
The sunlit bench
signed 'Frank McKelvey' (lower left)
oil on canvas
12 x 15½ in. (30.5 x 39.4 cm.)

Provenance

with Bell Gallery, Belfast, where purchased by the present owner's mother.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

McKelvey was born in Belfast in 1895, the son of a painter and decorator. He began exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1918, was elected an Associate in 1923 and became a full member in 1930. The Ulster Academy of Arts was founded in the same year, and McKelvey was one of its first Academicians. In 1923, The Studio, opined that the best painters in the North at that time were a distinct group, made up of Paul Henry, J. Humbert Craig and McKelvey, commenting that their paintings [were] 'always most obviously sincere, closely observed, firmly and cleanly handled' (see T. Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists 20th Century, Dublin, 1996, p. 299).

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