Frank McKelvey 'On the River Lagan' minimalist

Frank McKelvey 'On the River Lagan' minimalistBorn in Belfast, Frank McKelvey was an esteemed Irish painter. In 1918, his work was exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy where he would become a member and in 1921, he was elected a member of the Belfast Art Society. As former director of the Ulster Museum S. B. Kennedy has written, McKelvey helped forge a new and distinct way of representing the Irish scene. With a sharp eye, he could distill his subject, creating immersive odes to the Irish

Brain was born in Coventry and studied art at Coventry University under Terry Frost and Michael Sandle

'I Spent How Much

For collectors of screenprints and those who know opposites attract

literary and spiritual

'L'Oeil' 1957

Like Blackman’s Schoolgirls

Image Size: 72 x 50 cm

Edition of 18

Florence born

but may show some small signs of surrounding wear to paper surface

Some light foxing in the bottom right and upper right corner of the paper margin

He described his non figurative response to nature thus: "I see pictorial space as an inner landscape for the minds eye to roam"