Michael Healy 1873-1941: An Tur Gloine's stained glass pioneer

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Michael Healy 1873-1941: An Tur Gloine's stained glass pioneerThis book tells the story of the reclusive artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, established the bar for artistic and technical excellence in this exacting craft, and who worked at the world renowned An T r Gloine (Tower of Glass) studio for almost four decades. Lavishly illustrated, it charts Healy's stained glass career and features images of all his principle windows in Ireland and on three

This profusely illustrated contextual study of her life and work draws on hitherto unpublished primary sources to represent her unique artistic achievement during the turbulence of two world wars

where he developed a deep appreciation for handmade rice paper

Inspired by the psychoanalytical practice of Sigmund Freud

He was also an illustrator of genius

featuring Hokusai's The Great Wave

after all as Emily Dickinson famously wrote

Illustrations

At the very centre of the life of one of the twentieth-century’s greatest artists was the most unexpected of life-long influences

Over his short lifetime he produced a plethora of elaborate designs that have been a source of endless fascination and inspiration

She played an important role in the founding of Hugh Lane Gallery and helped secure Charlemont House as the gallery’s permanent home

It is an ideal guide for visitors to St

a full appreciation of her powerful figurative art was limited to a relative few

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