Catherine Marshall
Articles by Catherine Marshall
2022
2021
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Who invented Ireland?
A study of the promotion of Ireland through art in the United States provides, thanks to its author’s formidable research, a tapestry of who is…
2019
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World Art / Culture
The Cat’s Pounce
Linda Nochlin considers one interpretation after another of Courbet’s ‘The Painter’s Studio’. Teasing her prey, she draws out successive meanings, delivering stylish and brilliant asides…
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Irish Art / Culture
Gorgeous and Sinful
Harry Clarke’s work in stained glass can be read in a variety of ways – as modernist, late Victorian, political, even apolitical, but whichever way…
2018
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Irish Art / Culture
Vorsprung in the Free State
When the Shannon hydroelectric scheme was built in the 1920s it rapidly became a major tourist attraction, even a new national monument. But it was…
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Nicola Gordon Bowe (1948-2018)
Nicola Gordon Bowe, who died suddenly last month, was an expert on the work of stained glass artists Harry Clarke and Wilhelmina Geddes. She was…
2017
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World Art / Culture
A Study of Scarlet
Michel Pastoureau’s account of the history of the colour red is in many respects fascinating. But what worked well for his previous studies of black,…
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Irish Art / Culture
Desperately Seeking Focus
An exhibition that confuses painting with reportage does not make for great art. History painting is not and was never meant to be reportage. Rather…
2016
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Picturing the People
Daniel Macdonald’s ‘An Irish Peasant Family Discovering the Blight of their Store’ is perhaps a strange painting for a man wanting to make his career…
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Irish Art / Culture
Captured By Light
Stained glass is a difficult medium to make one’s living in. Even in wartime, when Wilhelmina Geddes received many commissions for memorial windows, her work…
2015
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World Art / Culture
A Massacre of Art?
A stimulating new study, focusing on one painting and its contemporary critical reception, illuminates the French painter Eugène Delacroix, a man who, ‘reactionary in his…