Norah McGuinness

Art Brokerage: Norah McGuinness Irish Artist: b. 1901-1980. Norah McGuinness was an Irish painter and illustrator. Norah McGuinness was born in County Londonderry. She attended life classes at Derry Technical School and from 1921 studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art under Patrick Tuohy, Oswald Reeves and Harry Clarke. Through Clarke she obtained a commission to illustrate Sterne's A Sentimental Journey (London, 1926). She attended the Chelsea Polytechnic in London before spending the 1920s working in Dublin as a book illustrator and stage designer.. Although her work remained figurative, she painted vivid, highly colored landscapes; her work shows the cubist influence of Lhote and she was associated with the modern movement in Ireland. She helped found the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943 and became its president in 1944 after the death of Mainie Jellett. Listings wanted.