AIB donates art works to State

'A Race in Hy Brazil' by Jack B Yeats is one of the gems in the AIB collection. A total of 39 works have been donated to the State and some of these will be displayed at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork from next month

CHARLIE TAYLOR

A total of 39 paintings including works from well-known artists such as Jack B Yeats, Paul Henry and Sir William Orpen, have been donated to the State by AIB.

Twelve of the artworks are being transferred to the State immediately with a further 27 to be given over the next two years.

The paintings are form part of the permanent collection of the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork An exhibition featuring some of the works being donated will be opened by Minister for Arts Jimmy Deenihan at the gallery early next month.

Mr Deenihan welcomed AIB's donation and said the bank, which is 99.8 per cent State owned, had also agreed to make an additional 1,000 pieces from its collection available for loan to publicly funded galleries.

"The AIB Collection is the pinnacle of “wise and knowledgeable connoisseurship” and as such is a valuable addition to the National Collection," he said."

The collection includes a number of highly-regarded works including A Race in Hy Brazil  by Jack B Yeats and Red Rocks at Pont Aven  by Roderic O’Conor.

The works being donated all date from either the late nineteenth century or the twentieth century and also include works by artists such as Gerard Dillon, William Leech, John Luke, Maurice MacGonigal Walter Osborne, Sean Keating, Mainie Jellett, Patrick Collins and William Crozier.

AIB's corporate art collection consists of over 3,000 works of art and is estimated to be worth between €10 million and €12 million.

“The AIB art collection is more than a group of paintings and sculptures originally intended to enhance bank premises. From the beginning a view and a vision of Irish life and culture that extended beyond financial matters was evident in the bank’s ethos,” said the gallery's chairman John R Bowen.

Crawford director Peter Murray said that the donation marked an important step in the development of the Crawford Art Gallery as a national cultural institution, and as one of the foremost museums of Irish art.

Artsworks to be donated:  

Jack B. Yeats - A Race in Hy Brazil 

Séan Keating - On the Run - War of Independence 

William Scott - Blue Still Life with Knife 

John Luke - The Lock at Edenderry 

Mary Swanzy - Samoan Scene 

Jack B. Yeats - Now or Never 

Paul Henry - Lough Altan, County Donegal 

Roderic O’Conor - Red Rocks Near Pont-Aven 

Walter Osborne - A November Morning 

F.E. McWilliam - Woman in a Bomb Blast 

Jack B. Yeats - Shelling Peas in Moore Street 

Patrick Collins - A Place with Stones  

Gerard Dillon - Cut Out Drop Out

Patrick Collins - Travelling Tinkers 

Colin Middleton - Moonlight Ballyholme 

Roderic O’Conor - Anemones 

William Leech - Chrysanthemums 

Séan Keating - West of Ireland Quayside with figures 

Colin Middleton - Winter: Camden Street 

Harry Kernoff - Sunny Day, Dublin  

William Leech - Studio Garden 

Tony O’Malley - Big White Flower Pot 

Mainie Jellett - Composition with 3 Elements  

Maurice MacGonigal - Races Ballyconneely, County Galway 

Aloysius O’Kelly - Corpus Christi Procession 

Colin Middleton - Market Day  

William Crozier - Walking to the Sea  

Harry Kernoff - The Forty Foot, Sandycove  

Joseph Malachy Kavanagh - Cockle Pickers  

Nathaniel Hill - Goosegirl in a Breton Farmyard 

Patrick Collins - Bog Country  

Tony O’Malley - Ripe Cornfield in the Wind
 
Sir William Orpen - The Boxer  

Gerard Dillon - Still Life  

William Crozier - The River Boundary (Lough Hyne) 

Sir John Lavery - Habiba  

Grace Henry - Claddagh Market  

Micheal Farrell - Au Soleil D’Or  

Evie Hone - Landscape, Co. Wicklow 

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