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Owen Walsh, Artist: Talent, Fame and Self-Sabotage

Owen Walsh, Artist: Talent, Fame and Self-Sabotage

O'Mara Walsh, Eoghan

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ISBN10: 1067646906
ISBN13: 9781067646905
Publisher: Liffey Press
Pages: 220
Language: English
Owen Walsh, Artist provides a fascinating insight into the life and work of a talented but troubled Irish artist. Written by the artist's son Eoghan, this literary biography describes Owen Walsh's early artistic achievements - winning scholarships and international prizes as a young man - which tragically never led to professional or personal success. Walsh died in 2002 and today is remembered primarily by a handful of art critics, a footnote in twentieth century Irish art history.

How did such potential fail to be realised? Was it due to his personality and temperament? Did the Irish art establishment conspire against him? Was an inability to control his demons a factor? Or was he simply too fiercely independent to get along with the powers that be?

In lively and entertaining prose, Eoghan Walsh describes his father winning a scholarship to the National College of Art; his doomed youthful marriage; his bitter estrangement from his family; the dramatic death of his mother; his desertion of wife and children in pursuit of his art; his rejection by the art establishment; his fierce loyalties and sworn enmities; and his lonely final years living forgotten in a bedsit on Baggot Street.

With numerous plates of Walsh's paintings included, the book ends with the artist finally receiving some recognition twenty years after his death. He is featured in the Centre for the Study of Irish Art at the National Gallery, one of his portraits is hung in Leinster House, and another is one of only two chosen for the Irish pavilion in the World Expo in Dubai. Despite a troubled life, Owen Walsh's art lives on.Owen Walsh, Artist provides a fascinating insight into the life and work of a talented but troubled Irish artist. Written by the artist's son Eoghan, this literary biography describes Owen Walsh's early artistic achievements - winning scholarships and international prizes as a young man - which tragically never led to professional or personal success. Walsh died in 2002 and today is remembered primarily by a handful of art critics, a footnote in twentieth century Irish art history.

How did such potential fail to be realised? Was it due to his personality and temperament? Did the Irish art establishment conspire against him? Was an inability to control his demons a factor? Or was he simply too fiercely independent to get along with the powers that be?

In lively and entertaining prose, Eoghan Walsh describes his father winning a scholarship to the National College of Art; his doomed youthful marriage; his bitter estrangement from his family; the dramatic death of his mother; his desertion of wife and children in pursuit of his art; his rejection by the art establishment; his fierce loyalties and sworn enmities; and his lonely final years living forgotten in a bedsit on Baggot Street.

With numerous plates of Walsh's paintings included, the book ends with the artist finally receiving some recognition twenty years after his death. He is featured in the Centre for the Study of Irish Art at the National Gallery, one of his portraits is hung in Leinster House, and another is one of only two chosen for the Irish pavilion in the World Expo in Dubai. Despite a troubled life, Owen Walsh's art lives on.

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