Georgina Moutray Kyle
Georgina Moutray Kyle HRUA | |
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| Born | 1865 Craigavad, County Down |
| Died | 25 February 1950 Belfast |
| Alma mater | Académie Colarossi |
Georgina Moutray Kyle HRUA (1865 – 1950) was an Irish watercolour painter and pastel artist.
Biography[]
Kyle was born in Craigavad, Co. Down and educated at home.[1] She was the youngest daughter of the businessman George Wilson Kyle.[2] Her niece Frances Kyle went on to be the first woman admitted to the bar in Ireland.[3] Kyle studied art at the Académie Colarossi in Paris beginning in 1883.[4] She was financially independent and as such had no real need to sell her work, so often she would give paintings away.[5] She was seen as eccentric and was an active Unionist, on occasion travelling to press the Unionist cause in London.[5]
On her return to Ireland, Kyle joined the The Belfast Ramblers' Sketching Club. She exhibited her work in the Belfast Art Society from 1894 to 1928 where she was an active member.[6] She was also a member of the Ulster Academy of Arts,[7] where she was elected honorary Academician in 1930.[5] She exhibited widely including at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Society of Artists, and the Paris Salon.[2]
She died at home on 25 February 1950. Kyle bequeathed eight paintings to the Belfast Municipal Gallery.[5] The Naughton Gallery, Queen's University Belfast, held a retrospective of her work in 2004.[8] Her work can be found in the collections of the Ulster Museum, the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts,[5] North Down Museum, Queen's University Belfast, and Belfast City Council.[9]
References[]
- ^ "Georgina Moutray Kyle RUA 1865 - 1950, Irish Artist". adams.ie.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Buckman, David (2006). Artists in Britain since 1945 (New and enl. ed.). Bristol: Art Dictionaries Ltd. p. 914. ISBN 978-0-9532609-5-9. OCLC 77011785.
- ^ "Frances Kyle | Inner Temple". 5 December 2019.
- ^ "The Dictionary of Ulster Biography". www.newulsterbiography.co.uk.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Anglesea, Martyn (2000). Royal Ulster Academy of the Arts Diploma Collection. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Royal Ulster Academy. p. 132. ISBN 0-900903-54-6.
- ^ "Georgina Moutray Kyle". IMMA.
- ^ McClelland, Gillian; Hadden, Diana (2005). Pioneering Women: Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast. Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 978-1-903688-57-1.
- ^ Wright, Christopher; Gordon, Catherine May (January 2006). British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11730-1.
- ^ "Kyle, Georgina Moutray, 1865–1950 | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
External links[]
- 32 artworks by or after Georgina Moutray Kyle at the Art UK site
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