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Mary Odell (c.1903-1976) ARDMORE

Mary Odell (c.1903-1976) ARDMORE oil on board signed lower left; inscribed with title on reverse h:13  w:14 in. Mary Odell was the daughter of Isabel Mary Grant Odell (néeUssher). She was born at Cappagh House, Co. Waterford, in 1902 or 1903 (she is recorded in the 1911 Census as 8 years old). Her mother went to the Slade School of Fine Art in London and also attended the Academie Julian in Paris. Later she exhibited at the RHA. Mary's training is unknown but she exhibited with her mother at the Country Shop, Dublin in 1942, which was reviewed in The Irish Times by Thomas McGreevy: "Mary Odell's Ardmore - the Street…shows that the artist's feeling is for the brighter and more dynamic aspects of the Irish scene. [She] has also an excellent sense of atmosphere, and the light on the distant mountains in The Twelve Pins is conveyed with a genuine suggestion of poetry, a poetry which is also perceptible in the bright pinks and deep blues of such pictures as "Modeligo" and "The Round Tower". Mary Odell died in Dublin in 1976.