Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Prints and Drawings Collection List Norah McGuinness Collection (PD 4187) (Accession No. 118) Collection of personal papers, correspondence, sketchbooks, drawings, illustrations, design studies, scrapbooks, posters, exhibition catalogues, invites, photographs, books and other documentation. Compiled by Prints and Drawings Department 2010
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Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland
Prints and Drawings Collection List
Norah McGuinness Collection
(PD 4187)
(Accession No. 118)
Collection of personal papers, correspondence, sketchbooks, drawings, illustrations, design studies, scrapbooks, posters, exhibition catalogues, invites, photographs, books
and other documentation.
Compiled by Prints and Drawings Department
2010
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Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………….3 Custodial History and Access…………………………………………………4 Content Structure and Arrangement…………………………………………4 Note to Researcher……………………………………………………………..5 Posters, Exhibition Catalogues and Invitations………………………………6 Greeting Cards, Christmas Cards, Brochures and Calendars………………17 Sketchbooks……………………………………………………………………..22 Drawings, Watercolours, Paintings, Sketches and Proofs……………………31 Plates, Prints, Dust Jackets and Stamps………………………………………36 Prefaces, Galley proofs, Talks and Tapes………………………………….…..38
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Introduction Norah Allison McGuinness, (1901–1980), painter and theatre designer, was born on 7 November 1901 at Lawrence Street, Londonderry, the daughter of Joseph Allison McGuinness, a coal merchant and ship-owner, and his wife, Jessie, née McCleery. She studied graphic design and painting at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, from 1921 to 1924. In her final year there, she first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. It was after this that she decided to concentrate on painting rather than on book illustration, although the latter remained a source of income throughout her career. Having moved to London, she spent some months during 1924 studying art at the Chelsea Polytechnic. She also received her first important graphic design commission, to produce the illustrations for an edition of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy which was published in 1925. In the same year she married Geoffrey Phibbs, a librarian from Wicklow, who wrote poetry under the name Geoffrey Taylor. Their marriage broke up in 1929 and they were divorced in 1931. In 1926 McGuinness began her long involvement with the theatre, designing the sets and costumes for W. B. Yeats's play Deirdre which was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, that year. In 1927 she designed sets and costumes for the Peacock Theatre in Dublin. The success of these projects led to many more set designs and costumes for the Abbey Theatre, as well as portraits of leading actors. On the advice of a fellow Irish painter, Mainie Jellett, McGuinness went to Paris in 1929 to study privately with the painter André Lhote. Her stay of two years in Paris greatly affected her painting style, and she introduced some elements from fauvism and cubism. Her subject matter remained constant—mostly still lifes, seascapes, and landscapes, with a few portraits. As her career progressed, she found her own mature style, employing loose brushwork and a spontaneous approach to her subject. She kept her forms simple and strong, and her colours mostly subdued in range. After ending her studies with Lhote in 1931, she spent a short time traveling in France and then returned to London; she lived and worked in Hammersmith until 1937, and sent paintings to mixed exhibitions at Lucy Wertheim's Gallery, and also showed with the Seven and Five Society and the London Group. She had solo exhibitions at Lucy Wertheim's Gallery in 1933, the Zwemmer Gallery in 1934, and the Dublin Painters' Gallery in Dublin in March 1936, shortly after joining the Dublin Painters' Society. McGuinness had two further shows at this venue in 1938 and 1941 and remained a member of the society until about 1950. In her Hammersmith years she resumed her book illustration and produced fashion drawings for the magazines Bystander and Vogue. In 1937 McGuinness returned home to Ireland, where she remained for the rest of her life. She did, however, travel to New York in 1937 and again in 1939, when she had a solo exhibition at the Paul Reinhardt Gallery, and also managed to produce some fashion illustrations for Harper's Bazaar and window displays for Fifth Avenue department stores, such as Bonwit Tellers. In 1943 she was one of the founder members of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, an annual exhibition held in Dublin devoted to showing avant-garde work; its first exhibition was held in September 1943. This organization was set up in opposition to the somewhat old-fashioned outlook of the Royal Hibernian Academy in
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Dublin. In September 1944 McGuinness was elected chairman of the committee of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and in March 1948 became president, a post she held until 1972. She probably gained more praise for her diplomatic role in running this organization than she did for her paintings, and is fondly remembered for her energetic role in seeking out opportunities for living Irish artists. However, McGuinness was elected an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1957, the rival organization that first showed her work in the early 1920s. In 1950 McGuinness was one of two painters, the other being Nano Reid, chosen to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale. In the 1950s and early 1960s she showed work at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin, the leading gallery in the city for contemporary art. Garden Green, a major still life of 1952, is in the collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, and Shore Pools, a moody landscape from 1965, can be seen at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. McGuinness had a major retrospective exhibition at Trinity College, Dublin, in October 1968, and her last exhibition was at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin, in 1979. Her work is in the collection of the Ulster Museum, Belfast, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Sligo Museum and Art Gallery, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin, and the Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, DC. She died at Monkstown Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, on 22 November 1980. * Biography details courtesy of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Custodial History and Access The National Library of Ireland acquired the Norah McGuinness collection through donation from her sister Rhoda McGuinness on 24 August 1994. The collection is comprised of personal papers, correspondence, sketchbooks, drawings, illustrations, design studies, scrapbooks, posters, exhibition catalogues, invites, photographs, books and other documentation. Because of the diverse nature of the collection it has been spread out amongst the relevant sections of the library. Original and printed artworks and all related art and design material are retained in the Prints and Drawings Department. Posters, exhibition catalogues and invites are held in the Ephemera Department. Photographs, negatives and slides are in the National Photographic Archive. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks and cuttings are held in Manuscripts and books are shelved in the IR and LO book stacks of the main library.
Content Structure and Arrangement The following is a list detailing those items held in the Ephemera and Prints and Drawings Departments.
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This part of the collection spans from the 1920s right up to the 1990s. The items reflect the diverse nature of Norah’s artistic career from book illustrator to set designer to graphic artist and painter. Some of the choice pieces include a bound volume of original drawings from her first major commission illustrating Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy in 1925 (PD 4187 TX (5) 3), a set of original water colour and pen and ink drawings for illustrations used in W.B. Yeats’ Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose (PD 4187 TX (5) 8) and an oil painting on canvas of a landscape (PD 4187 TX (6) 11). As well as the original drawings and illustrations there are numerous exhibition catalogues from galleries all over the world that exhibited Norah’s work over the decades confirming her role as an International Artist of much acclaim. The collection has been divided up according to type. In Ephemera Posters, Exhibition Catalogues and Invitations are available for consultation at the call number Acc 118 and relevant item number. The material in Prints and Drawings has been arranged under the following headings and call numbers. Greeting and Christmas Cards, Brochures and Calendars PD 4187 TX 2 followed by the relevant item number. Sketchbooks can be found at PD 4187 TX 3 followed by the relevant item number. Drawings, Watercolours, Sketches and Proofs are listed under PD 4187 TX 4 followed by the relevant item number. Plates, Prints, Dust jackets and Stamps are held at PD 4187 TX 6 followed by the relevant call number. Finally Prefaces, Galley Proofs, Documentation and Tapes are under PD 4187 TX 7 followed by the relevant item number.
Note to Researcher The following abbreviations have been used throughout the list NMcG = Norah McGuinness RMcG = Rhoda McGuinness Lisa Cruise March 2010
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Posters, Exhibition Catalogues and Invitations ACC 118 (1) 1979
Invite to NMcG exhibition at Taylor Galleries Dublin. Exhibition titled ‘Paintings in oils & gouache 1935-61’. 6 items
ACC 118 (2) B/W proof of birthday invitation designed by NMcG for Anne Yeats’ 21st. 1 item
ACC 118 (3) Colour bi-tonal proofs of birthday invitations designed by NMcG Anne Yeats' 21st. 2 items ACC 118 (5) Exhibition catalogues ‘Selection of modern Irish paintings by
Dr. Norah McGuinness and Cecil King from Great Southern Hotels Collection’. 11 items
ACC 118 (6) 1990
Invitation from Stephen O'Mara to Rhoda McGuinness to a private view of an exhibition titled ‘Selected work by the late Norah McGuinness’. Exhibition catalogue and biography written by Stephen O’Mara in respect of Norah. 2 items
ACC 118 (7) [November 1982]
Taylor Galleries Dublin Exhibition catalogue ‘Norah McGuinness (1903-1980)’. Copy annotated and contains newspaper clippings related to exhibition. 1 item
ACC 118 (8) November 1982
Invitation to Norah McGuinness exhibition in Taylor Galleries, Dublin. 1 item
ACC 118 (9) November - December 1983
The Gordon Gallery, Londonderry, exhibition catalogue Christmas show Nov 25 - Dec 24, 1983’. 1 item
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ACC 118 (10) June 1980
Watercolour Society of Ireland, exhibition catalogue of 126th exhibition at Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin. 1 item
ACC 118 (11) February – March 1983
The Gordon Gallery, Londonderry exhibition catalogue ‘Norah McGuinness Feb 11 - March 5, 1983’.
1 item
ACC 118 (12) Tom J. Rice Gallery, Glendalough exhibition catalogue ‘The French Connection’. 1 item
ACC 118 (13) 1987
Town Hall, Dun Laoghaire, exhibition catalogue, ‘Expression’. 1 item
ACC 118 (14) September 1985 The Gordon Gallery, Londonderry, exhibition catalogue ‘Norah McGuinness 6 Sept - 28 Sept 1985’. 1 item
ACC 118 (15) September 1985 Invitations to exhibition of NMcG works in The Gordon Gallery. 2 items
The Dawson Gallery Dublin, exhibition catalogues ‘Norah McGuinness 10-27 September 1975’. Both copies annotated. 2 items
ACC 118 (24) 1975
Annotated invitation to attend the press view of ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1975’ on 1 September 1975. Invite addressed to Dr. Norah McGuinness. 1 item
ACC 118 (25) June 1976
The Keys Gallery, Londonderry, exhibition catalogues ‘Norah McGuinness June 1976’. One copy annotated. 4 items
ACC 118 (26) 1977
The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, exhibition catalogues ‘Norah McGuinness, 11 - 29 Oct 1977.' Four of the copies annotated. 12 items
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ACC 118 (27) October 1977 Invitation to opening of NMcG exhibition at The Dawson Gallery
on 11 October 1977. 1 item
ACC 118 (28) 1979
The Keys Gallery, Londonderry, exhibition catalogues ‘Norah McGuinness April 27 - May 19th 1979’. 3 items
ACC 118 (29) 1979
Taylor Galleries, Dublin, exhibition catalogue, ‘Norah McGuinness. Paintings in oils and guache 1935-61’. 1 item
ACC 118 (30) 1979
Bank of Ireland, Dublin exhibition catalogue ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1979’.
1 item ACC 118 (31) 1960 National College of Art, Kildare Street ‘Irish Exhibition of Living
Art 1960’, catalogue. 1 item
ACC 118 (32) November 1961
The Dawson Gallery, Dublin exhibition catalogues ‘Norah McGuinness recent paintings, November 1961’. Two copies annotated. 3 items
ACC 118 (33) 1963
Art Centre, New School for Social Research, New York, exhibition catalogue, ‘Twelve Irish painters’.
ACC 118 (35) November 1964 Invitations to preview of NMcG exhibition at The Dawson Gallery,
Dublin. Handwritten message on verso of one invite in NMcG handwriting. Norah writes she has been at ‘the cottage for 10 days, divine, such an Autumn’. 2 items
ACC 118 (36) November 1964
Invitation to private view of NMcG exhibition at The Dawson Gallery.
1 item ACC 118 (37) 1961
National College of Art, Kildare Street, ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1961’, catalogue.
1 item ACC 118 (38) 1962
National College of Art, Kildare Street, ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1962’, catalogue.
1 item ACC 118 (39) 1962
Monte Carlo, exhibition catalogue ‘La peinture contemporaine Irlandaise’.
1 item
ACC 118 (40) 1963 The Leicester Galleries, London, exhibition catalogues, ‘Norah McGuinness recent paintings’. One copy annotated. 1 item
ACC 118 (41) 1963
Invitations to private view of NMcG exhibition at The Leicester Galleries, London. One invite annotated. 2 items
ACC 118 (42) 1964
National College of Art, Kildare Street, ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1964’, catalogue. 1 item
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ACC 118 (43) July 1965
Hugh Lane, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, exhibition catalogue ‘Paintings and sculpture (1945-65) from Private Collections in Ireland’. 1 item
ACC 118 (44) 1966
National College of Art, Kildare Street ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1966’, catalogue. 1 item
ACC 118 (45) 1966
Press release about British Artists featuring in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. 1 item
ACC 118 (46) 1967
Mercury Gallery, London exhibition catalogues ‘Norah McGuinness 11 Oct - Nov 1967’. One copy annotated.
3 items ACC 118 (47) 1967
National College of Art, Kildare Street ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1967’, catalogue. 1 item
ACC 118 (48) 1967
The College Gallery, University College Dublin exhibition catalogue. 1 item
ACC 118 (49) 1967
Watercolour Society of Ireland, exhibition catalogue of 113th exhibition, 1967. The Hall, 33 Molesworth Street, Dublin. 1 item
ACC 118 (50) 1968
The Dawson Gallery, Dublin exhibition catalogues ‘Norah McGuinness, 1968’. Five copies annotated. 5 items
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ACC 118 (51) 1968
National College of Art, Kildare Street ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1968’, catalogue. 1 item
ACC 118 (52) 1968
Exhibition Hall, Trinity College Dublin exhibition catalogues ‘Norah McGuinness Retrospective Exhibition’. Three copies annotated. 5 items
ACC 118 (53) 1993
Taylor de Vere, Dublin sales catalogue and price list for art auction, 14 December 1993. 2 items
ACC 118 (54) 1994
Taylor de Vere, Dublin sales catalogue and newspaper clippings for art auction, 8 March 1994. 1 item
ACC 118 (55) 1939
Paul Reinhardt Galleries, Fifth Avenue, New York, exhibition catalogues ‘Paintings by Norah McGuinness’ with appreciation written by Padraic Colum. 3 items
ACC 118 (56) 1939
Invitation to NMcG exhibition at Contemporary Pictures, South Leinster Street, Dublin titled ‘Oils and Guaches by Norah McGuinness’.
1 item
ACC 118 (57) 1940 Invitation to exhibition at Contemporary Pictures, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin titled ‘Exhibition of paintings by six Irish Artists who have studied at L'Academie Lhote’. 1 item
ACC 118 (58) 1943
Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin exhibition catalogues ‘Recent paintings by Norah McGuinness’. Two copies annotated. 2 items
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ACC 118 (59) 1950
American and Canadian exhibition catalogue ‘Exhibition of contemporary Irish painting North America’. 1 item
ACC 118 (60) December 1944
The Gallery Street, Stephen's Green, Dublin exhibition catalogue ’28 Watercolours by Norah McGuinness’. 1 item
ACC 118 (61) 1947
Leicester Galleries, London exhibition catalogue 'Watercolours by Norah McGuinness. Modern etchings and lithographs by French and foreign Artists’. 1 item
ACC 118 (62) [1949?]
Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin exhibition catalogues, ‘Recent paintings by Norah McGuinness’. One copy annotated with year ‘1952’ inscribed on it. 2 items
ACC 118 (63) 1953
Hugh Lane, Municipal Gallery Dublin, exhibition catalogue ‘Irish painting 1903-1953’.
1 item ACC 118 (64) 1951
Leicester Galleries, London exhibition catalogue ‘Recent pictures by Norah McGuinness’.
2 items ACC 118 (65) June 1951
Invitation to private view of NMcG exhibition at Leicester Galleries, London.
1 item ACC 118 (66) 1952
National College of Art, Kildare Street ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1952’, catalogue.
1 item
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ACC 118 (67) 1957 Leicester Galleries, London exhibition catalogues ‘Norah McGuinness’. Preface written by author and friend Elizabeth Bowen. Two copies annotated. 3 items
ACC 118 (68) October1957
Announcements of NMcG exhibition at Leicester Galleries, London.
4 items ACC 118 (69) October 1957 Invitation to NMcG exhibition at Leicester Galleries, London. 1 item ACC 118 (70) [1959]
The Waddington Galleries, London exhibition catalogue ‘House exhibition’. 1 item
ACC 118 (74) 1974
Posters advertising ‘Norah McGuinness Retrospective Exhibition’ in Trinity College Dublin.
4 items ACC 118 (77) Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin exhibition catalogue
‘Catalogue of works of art’. 1 item
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ACC 118 (78) Small pocket folder containing colour prints on paper of all paintings featured in Bank of Ireland art exhibition.
1 item ACC 118 (82) September 1978
Invitation to private view of Henri Hayden exhibition in Waddington Galleries, London. 1 item
ACC 118 (83) Exhibition catalogue of Louis le Brocquy works with introduction
by art critic Denys Sutton. 1 item
ACC 118 (85) Taylor Galleries, Dublin exhibition catalogue of Kitty Wilmer
paintings. Copy annotated. 1 item ACC 118 (86) March 1966
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London exhibition catalogue Louis le Brocquy paintings. 1 item
ACC 118 (87) October 1977
Invitation to a talk by Brenda Weir ‘Irish Gardens’ at An Taisce Offices, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin on 26 October 1977. 1 item
ACC 118 (88) November 1977 Invitation to a talk by Architectural historian Maurice Craig ‘Irish Houses’ at An Taisce Offices, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin on 30 November 1977. 1 item
ACC 118 (89) October 1977 Invitation to Brendan Ellis exhibition at the Tom Caldwell Gallery,
Belfast on 20 October 1977. 1 item
ACC 118 (90) April 1976 Invitation to Charles Brady exhibition at the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast on the 1 April 1976. 1 item
ACC 118 (91) May 1976 Invitations to NMcG exhibition at the Keys Gallery, May 1976. 3 items
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ACC 118 (92) November 1993 Karen Reihill and David Britton ‘Irish Art Exhibition’ catalogue. 1 item ACC 118 (93) 1984 ‘Irish Exhibition of Living Art, 1984’ exhibition catalogue. 1 item ACC 118 (94) November 1992
Invitation to Karen Reihill and David Britton ‘Irish Art Exhibition’, Baggot Street, Dublin. 1 item
ACC 118 (95) November 1977
Invitations to attend awards of An Taisce competition for ‘Miniature Arrangements’ on 30 November 1977. 6 items
ACC 118 (96) 1944
Waddington Galleries, London exhibition catalogue for John Piper Exhibition. 1 item
ACC 118 (97) April 1994 Karen Reihill and David Britton ‘Irish Art Exhibition’catalogue. 1 item ACC 118 (99) 1958
Three posters in folder advertising exhibition ‘Evie Hone Stained Glass Paintings Drawings’ University College Dublin, 5 July – 5 September 1958.
3 items
ACC 118 (100) April 1996 Karen Reihill and David Britton ‘Irish Art Exhibition’ catalogue. 2 items
NMcG designed Christmas and New Year card for The Shelbourne Hotel.
1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 2 NMcG designed Greetings card for 42 Upper Mount Street, Dublin. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 3 1948
NMcG designed Christmas and New Year card for 42 Upper Mount Street, Dublin. 2 items PD 4187 TX (2) 4 1952
NMcG designed Christmas and New Year card for The Shelbourne Hotel 1 item
PD 4187 TX (2) 6 1941
NMcG designed Christmas card Cypress Grove, Templeogue, Co. Dublin
1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 7 17 March - April 1940
NMcG designed Greeting card Cypress Grove, Templeogue, Co. Dublin 2 items
PD 4187 TX (2) 8 NMcG designed Greeting card for Amnesty International 5 items PD 4187 TX (2) 9 NMcG designed brochure, Dublin Gate Theatre Productions 'Gate at the Gaiety' 2 items PD 4187 TX (2) 10 NMcG designed Christmas card with caption 'A very
happy Christmas' 50 items PD 4187 TX (2) 11 NMcG designed card for 13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin.
One in b/w and one in colour 2 items
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PD 4187 TX (2) 12 NMcG designed Christmas card with caption 'A very happy Christmas' for her own home in13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin
7 items PD 4187 TX (2) 13 Nano Reid designed Greetings card (VWP400) 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 14 NMcG designed Greetings card for her house in
13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin. Two in colour, 1 in b/w.
3 items
PD 4187 TX (2) 15 Humorous handwritten Christmas card from Hilton (Edwards) and Michael (Mac Liammoir) to Norah McGuinness
1 item
PD 4187 TX (2) 17 NMcG designed Christmas card for her house in 13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin.
1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 18 NMcG designed Christmas card for her house in
13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 19 Possible NMcG designed Christmas card with inscription
‘from George’. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (2) 20 NMcG designed Greetings card with words ‘Carrig Beg’
on front. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 21 NMcG designed Greetings card for Margaret and Sean
O’Faolain, Cliff Farm Cottage. One card signed by ‘Magaret and Sean’. (VWP 200).
NMcG designed Christmas card with words ‘Carrig Beg’ on front.
2 items
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PD 4187 TX (2) 24 NMcG designed Christmas card for ‘Ned and Billie McGuire, Newtown Park, Blackrock.
1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 25 NMcG designed Greeting card. One signed by Sean
O'Faolain. (VWP 202). 6 items
PD 4187 TX (2) 26 NMcG designed postcard for Trinity College Dublin. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 27 Possible NMcG designed Christmas card for Ruth Jameson, Eglington House. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 28 Possible NMcG designed Christmas card.
1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 29 NMcG designed Christmas card for her own house in
13 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 30 NMcG designed Greetings card with French caption
‘Quand mon bateau...’ 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 31 NMcG designed Christmas cards for her own house in
'13' [Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin]. 52 items
PD 4187 TX (2) 32 NMcG designed brochure for ‘Gift Suggestions Brown
Thomas Furniture Department. 2 items PD 4187 TX (2) 33 Possible NMcG designed Greeting card titled Shannon legend.
Signed 'From Rita and Erskine' [Childers]. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (2) 34 Possible NMcG designed Greeting card titled St. Brendan
legend. Designed for Erskine Childers. 2 items
PD 4187 TX (2) 35 NMcG designed Greeting cards titled ‘Journey Wish’. Designed for Erskine Childers. One card signed by ‘Erskine’
3 items
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PD 4187 TX (2) 36 NMcG designed Greeting card with Fishing Blessing. Designed for Erskine Childers. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 37 NMcG designed Greetings card titled ‘Light through the Ages’.
Designed for Department of Transport and Power and Minister Erskine Childers.
PD 4187 TX (2) 39 Possible NMcG designed Christmas card with Christmas poem.
Designed for Erskine Childers. Card signed by ‘Erskine’. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (2) 40 1977 Copy of ‘The Goldsmith Poetry Calendar’. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 41 Copy of a Jack B. Yeats designed New Year card. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 42 1957
Copy of Helys Limited Calendar. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (2) 43 Christmas card from Mrs. Davison (Peacock Point, Long Island,
New York) to Norah. Depicts b/w photograph of Mrs Davison standing in front of a car.
1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 44 Christmas card from Lennox and Dollie Robinson and
Sylvester [?] to Norah. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 45 Christmas card from Virginia [Harris, Countess de Schael] to
Norah. Card depicts photographs of two children and a dog. Virginia writes a note to Norah on the reverse thanking her for her letter.
1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 46 Christmas card from Beattie [Lady Glenavy] to Norah. 1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 47 Christmas card from E. R. Miville to Norah. 1 item
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PD 4187 TX (2) 48 1995
Copy of Customer Choice Calendar for AIB with NMcG designs and illustrations.
1 item PD 4187 TX (2) 49 1939 Copy of Christmas card titled’ Four poems for Christmas’. 1 item
1 item PD 4187 TX (4) 51 Cartridge sketchbook, with red cover. 1 item PD 4187 TX (4) 52 Black and White sketchbook, with red cover. 1 item PD 4187 TX (4) 53 Wire-0 sketchbook. 1 item PD 4187 TX (4) 54 Bushey sketchbook, with studies of landscapes in
Drogheda, Milford and Carlow. 1 item
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PD 4187 TX (4) 55 Esquisse sketchbook, with sketches of Venice. 1 item PD 4187 TX (4) 56 May 1948
Reeves sketchbook titled ‘May 1948’. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (4) 57 September 1947
Sketchbook, titled ‘Sept[ember] 1947’. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (4) 58 Sketchbook, with sketches of seascapes and cows. 1 item PD 4187 TX (4) 59 Open flat sketchbook includes drawing of Madame
PD 4187 TX (4) 110 Kingsland sketchbook with studies of various house
interiors. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (4) 111 [1964]
Sketchbook, titled ‘'64 New Vale’. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (4) 112 Esquisse sketchbook with drawing of
‘Winged Parkenole Chair’.
1 item
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Drawings, Watercolours, Paintings, Sketches and Proofs
PD 4187 TX (5) 1 Set of original pen and ink drawings by NMcG, for Elizabeth
Hamilton's book Wicklow Childhood. Drawings numbered 1,2,3(a), 3(b), 4, 5, 7 [No.6], 8, 9(a), 9(b), 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Also includes one draft of No. 12 and one a draft of No.4. 20 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 2 Set of original watercolour, pencil, pen and ink drawings by
NMcG for Elizabeth Bowen's book The Shelbourne. Includes drawings for following pages 27, 33 (draft), 43, 45, 55 (3 drafts), 67, 73, 93, 107, 141 (draft) and 169. 14 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 3 Attractive bound volume with green cover decorated by NMcG.
Volume contains original draft pen, ink and pencil drawings by NMcG, for Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Illustrations in b/w and colour. Some images drawn in volume, others are pasted onto pages. c.200 pp
PD 4187 TX (5) 4 Set of illustration proofs in envelope for Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.
65 items PD 4187 TX (5) 5 Set of corrected illustration proofs and proofed pen, ink
and pencil drawings including title-page and dust-jacket, for Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey. c.76 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 6 Six leaves of penciled notes and pencil sketch, for Elizabeth
Bowen's The Shelbourne. 6 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 7 Set of original draft pen, ink and pencil drawings for Eileen
O'Faolain's Miss Pennyfeather and the Pooka. Images for pages 46 and 100. 2 items
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PD 4187 TX (5) 8 Set of illustrations original and printed by NMcG for W. B. Yeats’
Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose. Illustrations include; original colour ink illustration for title page, preliminary watercolour for frontispiece, twenty b/w ink illustrations and proofs and three colour proofs.
25 items PD 4187 TX (5) 9 Photocopied illustrations for W. B. Yeats’ Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose from 1927 Macmillan and Co. Ltd.
edition. c.50 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 10 Painting of set design by NMcG for George Kaiser’s From Morn
to Midnight. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (5) 11 Folder of oil paintings on canvas. Paintings include one landscape,
one seascape, two portraits of young boy, two portraits of unidentified females and two portraits of a woman possibly Phylis Moss.
8 items PD 4187 TX (5) 12 Two sketches by NMcG. One titled ‘Autumn’. 2 items PD 4187 TX (5) 13 Two ink and wash drafts with inscription for a ‘Story by Paddy
Campbell’. 2 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 14 Two ink and wash drawings for a Frank O'Connor story
published in Harpers Bazaar. 2 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 15 Pencil drawing titled ‘Paris’. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 16 Folio of 25 leaves titled ‘Life drawings’. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 17 Three drafts of dust jacket design for Harry Bewick's A Wild Taste. 3 items
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PD 4187 TX (5) 18 Various draft pastel illustrations for Harry Bewick's A Wild Taste. Illustrations include two drafts for Chapter 14, and one each for pages 33, 30, 28 and 19.
6 items PD 4187 TX (5) 19 Watercolour design, titled ‘Keep cool in the parks travel by Underground'. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 20 Pencil drawing and watercolour of Alpine guitarist.
2 items PD 4187 TX (5) 21 Watercolour dust jacket design, for a book on Roman antiquities. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 22 Miscellaneous loose-leaf watercolour sketches and pencil studies
of land, sea and bog scapes, many with bird life. c.140 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 23 Miscellaneous loose- leaf watercolour, pastel and charcoal drawings of still life studies and landscapes. In folder titled ‘Small loose sketches’.
c.50 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 24 Miscellaneous loose-leaf watercolour and pastel studies of figures and costumes. In folder titled ‘Medium loose sketches’.
14 items PD 4187 TX (5) 26 Miscellaneous loose-leaf drawings of still life studies. 4 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 27 Watercolour study of landscape in Newport. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 28 Watercolour study of still life kitchen scene. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 29 Watercolour study of seascape. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 30 Pencil sketch of landscape and birds for Booterstown An Taisce Bird Sanctuary poster. 1 item
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PD 4187 TX (5) 35 Folder with items related design work by NMcG for The Gate Theatre. Includes cartoon sketches of Hilton Edwards and Micheal Mac Liammoir, typed letter regarding the Irish Theatre Archive exhibition and design sketches for exhibition programme. 6 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 36 Two watercolour for stage costume designs by NMcG. 2 items PD 4187 TX (5) 37 Folder of draft watercolour and pencil illustrations by NMcG
for murals and images to be used in The Unicorn Restaurant, Dublin and The Barleycorn Restaurant. 16 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 45 Pastel drawing titled ‘Dunmore East’. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 46 Pastel drawing titled ‘Donegal’. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 47 Miscellaneous loose-leaf watercolour sketches of landscapes, sea scapes, still life and portraits. 47 items PD 4187 TX (5) 49 Drawing by NMcG titled ‘Processional’ and two chromocopies of same. Pencil study for oil portrait of Geoffry Phibbs sitting at type writer on verso of drawing.
3 items PD 4187 TX (5) 50 1968 Drawing titled ‘Twelfth Night 1968’. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 53 Two watercolour sketches of set design for stage. Title of
scene ‘Venice’. 2 items
PD 4187 TX (5) 55 Charcoal sketch of harbour scene. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 56 Folder of items containing architectural and interior design
drawings and sketches of the Royal Bank of Ireland, Foster Place, Dublin. Includes three architectural drawings to scale of building exterior and six watercolours related to Georgian interiors by NMcG. 9 items
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PD 4187 TX (5) 57 Full and half length portrait study of John Piper by NMcG. 2 items PD 4187 TX (5) 60 Pen, ink and pencil sketch of unidentified person. 1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 61 [1941]
Watercolour painting titled St George’s Church, Dublin. See Bib #238868 for more information.
1 item PD 4187 TX (5) 62 Oil painting of landscape on board. 1 item
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Plates, Prints, Dust jackets and Stamps
PD 4187 TX (6) 2 NMcG designed dust jacket for Elizabeth Bowen's The
Shelbourne. 1 item PD 4187 TX (6) 3 Folio titled Fashion Scrapbook containing prints of illustrations
by NMcG mainly from the publication The Bystander. Prints have been pasted into pages of folio. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (6) 6 Etching on paper in reverse, titled ‘Paris’. Shows street lamp, trees
and café in background. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (6) 7 Etching on paper of woman lying on grass with umbrella. 1 item PD 4187 TX (6) 9 NMcG designed dust jacket for Paul Morand's Open All Night. 1 item PD 4187 TX (6) 10 NMcG designed dust jacket for J. R. Bryce’s The Lake. 1 item PD 4187 TX (6) 11 Etching, by Julian Trevelyan with inscription 'to Norah with
love Julian'. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (6) 12 Folder of items relating to work titled ‘girl with bird cage’.
Includes lithographs, tracing paper studies, and drawing. 5 items
PD 4187 TX (6) 14 August 1974
Folder of items relating to first day of cover service of NMcG designed stamp for An Post. Includes three envelopes with ‘First Day of Issue’ mark and stamp and two biographies of Norah McGuinness issued by An Post. 5 items
PD 4187 TX (6) 15 Block-mounted copper plate by NMcG, of tall reeds under sun. 1 item PD 4187 TX (6) 17 Signed print, Gerard Dillon's Omey Island Figures. 1 item
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PD 4187 TX (6) 21 Four prints of Jack B. Yeats engravings. Three colour
and one b/w. 4 items
PD 4187 TX (6) 22 Copy of Jack B. Yeats designed bookplate for Lennox
Robinson. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (6) 23 NMcG print cover design. 1 item PD 4187 TX (6) 25 Signed print, Gerard Dillon’s Gypsy Children. 1 item PD 4187 TX (6) 27 Copy of dust jacket designed by NMcG for Daphne Muir’s Virtuous Woman. 1 item
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Prefaces, Galley proofs, Talks and Tapes
PD 4187 TX (7) 1 April 1968 Copy, Sir Robin Darwin's speech, titled ‘Dublin Address 18 April 1968’. 1 item
PD 4187 TX (7) 2 Three annotated proofs of Elizabeth Bowen's biographical note
about Norah McGuinness for an exhibition catalogue preface. 3 items PD 4187 TX (7) 3 Annotated galley proof of paper by NMcG for the publication
The Bell titled ‘Make your windows gay’. 2 pp
PD 4187 TX (7) 4 Photostat copy of James White (Director of National Gallery
of Ireland) essay about NMcG. 5 pp
PD 4187 TX (7) 5 Photostat copy of James White composition titled ‘Two
Contemporary Irish Painters’. 2 pp
PD 4187 TX (7) 6 Annotated copies of James White compositions titled ‘Paintings
by Norah McGuinness’ and ‘Norah McGuinness’.
2 items PD 4187 TX (7) 7 Handwritten draft of NMcG speech on the artist Cezanne. 1 p PD 4187 TX (7) 8 Handwritten annotated draft of NMcG speech on ‘What it
means to be an Artist’ to be delivered to the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA). 15 pp
PD 4187 TX (7) 9 Additional handwritten notes and typing instructions for ICA talk.
3 pp PD 4187 TX (7) 10 Two cassette tapes labeled ‘Derek Hill’ and ‘Moira Powell
Norah’s only pupil’. 2 items
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PD 4187 TX (7) 11 Typed draft of NMcG ICA speech with handwritten annotations.
8 pp PD 4187 TX (7) 13 Three typescript copies of composition by NMcG titled
‘Recollections of William Butler Yeats by Norah McGuinness’. 3 items
PD 4187 TX (7) 14 Handwritten draft of NMcG composition titled ‘Recollections of William Butler Yeats by Norah McGuinness’. 3 items PD 4187 TX (7) 15 Two typescript copies of John Betjeman poem written at Tillyara,
Galway and dedicated to ‘The Regent’ [Terence Grey]. One copy annotated. 2 items
PD 4187 TX (7) 16 Typescript copy of Thomas McGreevy, (Poet and Director of National Gallery of Ireland) poem titled ‘Col Capo Si di Merda Lordo’.