Norah McGuinness
Norah McGuinness (Derry 7 November 1901, died 22 November 1980) was an Irish painter and illustrator.
Norah McGuinness trained at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and at Chelsea Polytechnic in London before spending the 1920s working in Dublin as a book illustrator and stage designer. She married the editor Geoffrey Taylor and had a daughter, but they divorced in 1929. The same year she followed the advice of Mainie Jellett and travelled to Paris to work at the studio of André Lhote. From there she moved to London where she was a member of the avant-garde London Group, from 1937-39 she lived in New York. After New York, she returned to Ireland, settled in Dublin and concentrated on painting.
Although her work remained figurative, she painted vivid, highly coloured landscapes, her work shows the cubist influence of Lhote and she was associated with the modern movement in Ireland. She helped found the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943 and became its president in 1944 after the death of Mainie Jellett. With Nano Reid she represented Ireland in the 1950 Venice Biennale, she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1957, but later resigned. There was a retrospective of her work in the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin in 1968 and in 1973 the College awarded her an honorary doctorate.
david mcguinness 1988
scouse 2005
student of the year 2005
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knowsley cmmunity collfge 2004 2005
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Date of birth (location august 2 1988