Lot 221: Sean O'Connor (1909-1992)

Sean O'Connor (1909-1992) BRIDGE ON THE LOE, KILLARNEY, 1965

oil on board

signed lower right; inscribed on artist's studio label on reverse

41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.

Provenance:
Studio of the artist; Private collection

O'Connor was a notable landscape artist whose subject matter predominately revisited the natural environment of his native Killarney. Having spent some time in the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, O'Connor later exhibited in 1940 with the Munster Fine Art Exhibition in Cork. A year later he obtained a studio in the Town Hall in Killarney and for the next fifty years painted and exhibited at this location. O'Connor exhibited with the RHA in 1945 and 1946 and from 1946 to 1990 with the Watercolour Society of Ireland.