Lot 94: Patricia Griffith née Wallace (1912-1973) SNOW,

Patricia Griffith née Wallace (1912-1973) SNOW, CLEW BAY signed lower left; inscribed on reverse with alternate titles (Spring Snow and Melting Snow) and with remains of original exhibition label on reverse gouache on buff coloured paper 28 by 38cm., 11 by 15in. Exhibited: WCSI, Dublin, 1942, catalogue no. 101 (£3-3-0) Born in Dublin, the daughter of William Wallace, company secretary to Arthur Guinness, Pat Wallace studied art at the RHA, Dublin, and the Slade, London. In the mid-1930s she worked as a scene-painter at the Torch Theatre in Dublin. Her first solo show was held at the Dublin Painters Gallery in 1942. During the 1940s her husband William A. Griffith owned the Unicorn Restaurant, where he employed a number of European refugees, and where Pat Griffith painted murals. During this period she exhibited with the White Stag Group. She also painted murals for the Wallace family's Old Head Hotel in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo. She exhibited with the Dublin Painters and at the RHA and the WCSI, specialising in children's portraits. She died in Dublin, 1973. (See Snoddy, pp. 211-2).