IRISH TIMES
By Ruth Sheehy
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| THE FISH (CHRIST) (1969-70) STAINED GLASS WINDOW, (DETAIL) IN THE CHAPEL OF NAZARETH HOUSE, DUBLIN. REPRODUCED COURTESY OF THE NAZARETH SISTERS, DUBLIN, AND WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE KING ESTATE. PHOTOGRAPH: JOZEF VRTIEL |
The Life and Work of Richard King: Religion, Nationalism and Modernism was published in January as part of Peter Lang’s Reimagining Ireland series, the culmination of my research on the artist over 30 years.
My first encounter with King’s art came when I was invited by the Capuchin community in Church Street, Dublin, in September 1989, to provide a catalogue raisonné of the artist’s religious paintings from 1946 to 1972. These works, originally reproduced as illustrations for The Capuchin Annual, located at the time in the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, are now in the Irish Capuchin Provincial Archives, Church Street, Dublin. I completed this two-volume catalogue entitled The Paintings of Richard King for The Capuchin Annual in July 1992.
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| ST ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, (1934) SINGLE-LIGHT STAINED GLASS WINDOW, IN THE CHAPEL OF THE SACRED HEART CONVENT, MOUNT ANVILLE, DUNDRUM, DUBLIN. REPRODUCED COURTESY OF MOUNT ANVILLE SACRED HEART EDUCATION TRUST AND WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE KING ESTATE. PHOTOGRAPH: JOZEF VRTIEL |
