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Virtual Exhibits: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns
John Keating |
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Port Authority King O'Toole An Aran Fisherman |
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KEATING King O'Toole oil on board Collection of Brian P. Burns |
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King O'TooleKing O'Toole is another of Keating's heroic figures whose countenance conveys noble suffering and perseverance. A descendant of a powerful ancient chieftain from County Wicklow, Keating's O'Toole embodies the life of deprivation and virtue extolled by Eamon De Valera's Ireland of the 1930s. The shabby clothes and worn expression of the grey-bearded O'Toole could belie the painting's title, but his moral authority over the Wicklow glen emerges in his monumentality and in his figure's echoing of the hill beyond. In sad but dignified repose, King O'Toole implies a natural nobility. His isolation and poverty epitomize the reality of life for those abandoned in rural Ireland by the emigrating young. |
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