Irish Arts Review

The Paintings of Mary SwanzyAuthor(s): Charles O'HaraSource: Irish Arts Review (1984-1987), Vol. 3, No. 3 (Autumn, 1986), p. 80Published by: Irish Arts ReviewStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20491913 .

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IRISH ARTS REVIEW

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The Paintings of Mary Swanzy

Mary Swanzy died in 1978 at the age of ninety-six and at the end of a long, interesting, productive and successful artistic career, painting in many parts of the world. The exhibition at Pyms

Gallery, Belgravia, London, provides an unique opportunity to view and compare Swanzy's work over seven decades beginning with her earliest in her native Dublin where she studied at

Miss Manning's before going to France in 1905. In Paris she exhibited in the Salon des Independants alongside Picasso, Vlaminck, Modigliani, and Braque, attended Gertrude Stein's heady weekly soirees and enthusiastic ally embraced the Cubist approach to painting.

From France, Mary Swanzy went south to Italy to paint but left on the outbreak of World War I to engage in

Mary Swanzy, Female Nudes with Horse and Viaduct.

Oil on canvas, 30 x 25inches.

war relief work which took her to the Balkans. There, nevertheless, she also found time to paint and draw, producing excellent work, as witnessed by examples in the present exhibition.

After the war this intrepid spinster went out to Samoa and thence to Hawaii. Her lush, Gauginesque, Poly nesian paintings met with great success when they were shown in California, where she stopped on her route around the world, and at the Bernheim Jeune

Galleries in Paris, on her return to France in 1924. Mary Swanzy's Poly nesian period is represented in the Pyms exhibition which, closely mirroring her artistic career, goes on to include paintings from the 1930s, World War Il works and the later post-war paintings of this industrious, indefatigable traveller.

Charles O'Hara

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