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Light From The West

Irish Art lies at the heart of the Ulster Museum collections. In the years following 1870, a number of ambitious Irish artists travelled to France and Belgium to study painting. Often termed 'Irish Impressionists', these talented artists painted in the open air and brought a new spirit of naturalism to Irish painting.

In the early 1900s, Irish artists spent long periods in the West of Ireland, drawn by the wild remoteness of the landscape, and the brilliant purity of Atlantic light. It was there they encountered a traditional way of life that was quickly disappearing. Painters like Jack Yeats, Paul and Grace Henry, William Orpen and Seán Keating grew fascinated by the majestic landscapes of the West, and the hard, resilient lives of its people. Other Irish artists took to more cosmopolitan settings, such as Lavery and his paintings of Morocco and the private world of his London studio.

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William Butler Yeats: fourth plate, 1907
print

BELUM.U2023.4

L’allée au bois (The Woodland Path)
PAINTING

BELUM.U4888

Darrynane (in the Sun) (1927)
Painting

BELUM.U68

The Green Coat (1926)
Painting

BELUM.U80

Eileen, Her First Communion (1901)
Painting

BELUM.U70

The Lady in Black (Mrs. Trevor) (c.1908)
Painting

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A Prayer for the Departed (1910 - 12)
Painting

BELUM.U433

Grafton Street / Conversation Piece (1923)
Painting

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Quiet
painting

BELUM.U394

The Watcher
Painting

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BELUM.U4972

The Potato Digger (1912 - 15)
Painting

BELUM.U481

Self-Portrait (c.1905 - 10)
Painting

BELUM.U2293

Seated Female Nude (1921 -22) or Seated Nude (1921 -22)
Painting

BELUM.U430

On Through the Silent Lands (1951)
Painting

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BELUM.U5008

Robin Redbreast
Painting

BELUM.U388

Neach (1928)
Painting

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BELUM.U299

Tory Island From Tor More (1958-59)
Painting

BELUM.U428

The Riverside (Long Ago) (1923)
Painting

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BELUM.U589

Slan Leat a Athair / Goodbye, Father (1935)
Painting

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BELUM.U301

Dawn, Killary Harbour (1921)
Painting

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BELUM.U2709

Aloes (1920's)
Painting

BELUM.U114

Resting (1905)
Painting

BELUM.U5165

Home from the Mainland
Painting

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BELUM.U5160

Return of the Wanderer
Painting

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BELUM.U5001

A Man Of The Hills (1910-1913)
Painting

BELUM.U2675

View of Pont Aven (1899)
Painting

BELUM.U389

Field of Corn, Pont Aven (1892)
Painting

BELUM.U116

Cherry Ripe (1889)
Painting

BELUM.U613

W.B. Yeats 1865-1939 (1889)
Painting

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BELUM.U2081

My Friend Michael Mangan (1910-12)
Painting

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BELUM.U4706

Castle Class Escort at Londonderry Base (1944)
Drawing

BELUM.U2556

Autumnal Sorrows (1878)
Painting

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BELUM.U5000

My Host and Hostess (1910 - 13)
Painting

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The Blacksmith (1910 - 13)
Painting

BELUM.U4781

The Road to the West (1944)
Painting

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BELUM.U315

Tobar Pádraig, Co. Mayo (1925)
Painting

BELUM.U2296

Abstract (1922)
Painting