Hugh Lane Gallery

This pastel, which was bequeathed to Hugh Lane Gallery in 2021, is a rare survivor of William Butler Yeats’ paintings and drawings. While Yeats devoted himself to poetry, he had studied art at the Metropolitan School of Art and the Royal Hibernian Academy School in Dublin. The scene shows the flooded lake at Coole, County Galway, the home of Lady Gregory.

Image details (Reg. 2141): William Butler Yeats, The Lake at Coole, 1903.

Today marks a 100 years since William Butler Yeats was honoured with a Nobel Prize in Literature, ‘for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation’.

Hugh Lane’s inner circle of artists and writers friends, which William Yeats was part of, was of great support and inspiration for Lane to build a collection of modern art. His close connections to Hugh Lane are reflected in the poem September 1913 in which Yeats expresses his disappointment at the lack of support that Lane was given for the proposed gallery.

In his notable poem The Municipal Gallery Revisited (1937), Yeats recalls intimate memories of his and Lane’s close friends, including Hazel Lavery and Lady Gregory.

Image details (Reg. 428): William Rothenstein, W. B. Yeats, 1898

Sir Hugh Percy Lane was born on this day in Cork in 1875 to Frances Adelaide (Persse) Lane and to James William Lane. He was brought up in Cornwall, England where he did an apprenticeship in painting restoration and then worked as an art dealer.

Lane became one of the first dealers to collect French Impressionist paintings. His ambition to establish a gallery of modern art was realised in 1908 with the opening of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, now called Hugh Lane Gallery. The collection has continued to grow and evolve to preserve the ambition that Sir Hugh Lane had for his gallery, that of being a leading city art gallery for Dublin’s citizens and visitors.



Image details (Reg. 132): John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Sir Hugh Lane, 1906

Today marks the 114th birthday of Francis Bacon who was born in Dublin on this day in 1909. Hugh Lane Gallery is proud to house the remarkable Bacon studio and his unique collection of works, including the last unfinished painting, Self-Portrait, which he was working on when he died.

Image 1: Renowned photographer Jane Bown (1925 – 2014) took photographs of Francis Bacon on his 71st birthday, 28 October 1980, to accompany an interview by Miriam Gross for The Observer. Bown + Bacon is a current display at Hugh Lane Gallery featuring Bown’s photographs of Bacon in his studio at 7 Reece Mews, London.

Image 2: Francis Bacon, Self-Portrait, 1991-92

We were honoured to welcome An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to the Andy Warhol Three Times Out exhibition over the weekend. Pictured here with Edie Sedgwick from Warhol's film 'Outer and Inner Space' featured in the exhibition.

Our Education and Community Outreach
team has been busy developing a response project called 𝕎𝕖 ℂ𝕒𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕟 with visual artist  

Based on famous Campbell’s soup paintings and in response to major exhibition Andy Warhol Three Times Out, this project is curated around 4 chapters each looking at the can from different perspectives focusing on Irish culture, trades and crafts as well as departing from the variety of media used by Warhol. 

Chapter 1 • ᴄᴀɴ ᴏꜰ ʙᴇᴀɴꜱ • recently concluded and with we had a mad cool visit at Batchelors Factory in Cabra led by followed by screen printing experiments at led by .barrett_ and then made a unique wallpaper from ink drawings created after our visit at the factory. 

This project is co-curating by with Jessica O’Donnell, Head of Education and Community Outreach and Education Curator  

𝕎𝕖 ℂ𝕒𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕟 is in display in Hugh Lane Gallery until 28 Jan 2024. Free, all welcome. 

Thanks to: ALL of Hugh Lane Gallery’s staff, the art technicians (Peter, Carl, David and Fergus for installing this chapter) and for assisting the ink drawing workshop.

Tom, Denise, Tony, Noel from Mary, Megan, Calvin and Phil from with Arabella, Jirapon, Jack, Sarah and Rebecca and their cool drawings Jack and Aoife from

Alfie and Ronan from Print Bureau

Alan from AJK Decor Ltd

Brian from A.C. Taylor Trading Ltd

[and to all of other working hands in between 👉👈] 

Chapter 2 • Silver Can • in the making and soon to be posted about. 



Image 1: photography from our visit to Batchelors Factory

Image 2: cropped digital poster of WCCC

Image 3: exhibition view of WCCC with screen prints and wallpaper made from drawings created by Cabra For Youth

Image 4: end of chapter visit of Andy Warhol’s exhibition, here with Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds

Are you curious and have an enthusiasm for creatively exploring the Hugh Lane Gallery? Do you have a willingness to participate, actively contribute to discussions and complete assignments? Our Open Call for applications to participate in our TY course starting in January 2024 is now live! Find out more here https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/transition-year-programme/

OPEN CALL: Hugh Lane Gallery Freelance Panel Of Artists, Guides, and Lecturers 2023-30

The Hugh Lane Gallery is seeking applications for inclusion on our freelance panel of experts from varying disciplines related to visual art practice to support the delivery of their education programs. Applications from suitably qualified artists, guides, and lecturers from varying disciplines related to visual art and art history will be assessed for inclusion on the panel.

To learn more about the application details for this open call, please visit - https://bit.ly/3Rlu7TV

The Closing Date and time for receipt of initial applications is Noon on Monday, 25th Sep 2023.

Less than a month to go until Andy Warhol Three Times Out!

6th October 2023 - 28th January 2024

Lots of time slots are already sold out. Don't miss your opportunity to experience the largest ever Andy Warhol exhibition in Ireland.

Book your ticket now on hughlane.ie (link in bio)

The new publication ‘Bown + Bacon’ is now available in Hugh lane Gallery bookshop!

This catalogue accompanies the display ‘Bown + Bacon’ (19 July – 7 January 2024), with essays by Logan Sisley, Luke Dodd, Barbara Dawson and Francis Bacon’s 1980 with Miriam Gross from The Observer.

‘Bown + Bacon’ features Jane Bown’s photographs of Francis Bacon in his studio at 7 Reece Mews, recently donated by Jane Bown Estate, along with selected items from the Gallery’s Francis Bacon Studio Archive.

Hugh Lane Gallery congratulates everyone at EVA International curator Sebastian Cichocki, Director Matt Packer, and all the artists on yesterday’s launch of the 40th edition of EVA International. Ireland's biennial of contemporary art continues until 29 October 2023 in venues across Limerick (including Limerick City Gallery of Art, which features in this image works by Goshka Macuga and Natsuko Uchino).

Dublin City Council Culture Company is hiring a Panel of Visitor Experience Assistants 📋

Are you passionate about working with people? Do you want to work in a role that directly supports the day-to-day management of a dynamic cultural organisation that runs a museum and historic buildings in Dublin? If so, then we are looking for you!

The closing date is Monday 11th Sep, Learn more about this role here - https://bit.ly/45xovdD

Irish artist Sarah Henrietta Purser passed away on this day in 1943. Purser played a very important role in the development of modern art in Ireland, her activism in the arts is noteworthy.

In 1901, she organised an exhibition by Irish artists Nathanial Hone and John Butler Yeats which was the initial motivation for Sir Hugh Lane establishing the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin. She also founded the An Túr Gloine stained glass studio in 1903 and the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland in 1924. Hugh Lane Gallery is proud to have nine drawings and paintings by Purser in its collection.

Image 1 credits – ‘Portrait Study’ by Sarah Henrietta Purser, c. 1895
Image 2 credits – ‘Sarah Purser ’by Mary Swanzy, c.1926

Happy 95th Birthday to Andy Warhol! Who can relate?

We are so excited to have poets Samuel Yakura, Kerrie O’Brien, Sree Sen, and Grace Wilentz read their work as part of our Art and the Outdoors celebration taking place this Saturday and Sunday. Free and all are welcome.

Read more about these distinguished poets here - https://bit.ly/3DFmz6g

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann

We have a fantastic live music lineup for our Art and the Outdoors celebration this Sat and Sun from Noon-4pm with performances by acclaimed musicians Max Greenwood, Sive, Bow Musique Quartet, Varo, Adrian Hart, Ryan McAuley Duo, and The Hot Dots.

Free, for all ages, and see you there! Find further details including times here - https://bit.ly/3DFmz6g
Photo courtesy - Sive music

Looking for some Bank Holiday Fun?
Art and the Outdoors returns!
An exciting two-day, free programme of outdoor events for all the family.
Parnell Square North on Saturday 05th August and Sunday 06th August 2023, 12pm to 4pm.

Inspired by artists who moved out of their studio to paint ’en plein air’ (or out of doors), we have a family friendly event taking place on the street. Fun and creativity for all ages including artist-led drawing, embossed printmaking, street spectacle, face painting, poetry Bursts in conjunction with Poetry Ireland, a live music stage, spot prizes and much more!

Admission free; all welcome.

Hugh Lane Gallery invites you to visit ‘Bown + Bacon’, a new display of photographs of Francis Bacon that have been acquired recently and are now part of the permanent collection. The English photographer Jane Bown worked for The Observer newspaper for 60 years and is renowned for her black and white portraits of famous figures, including Samuel Beckett, Queen Elizabeth II, Björk, and Lucian Freud.

Francis Bacon was photographed by Bown in 1980 for an interview in The Observer and he later used one of these portraits as the frontispiece to his 1985 Tate retrospective exhibition catalogue. The gallery wishes to thank the Jane Bown Estate for this wonderful donation.

This display is available to view until 5th November 2023.

Andy Warhol Three Times Out. Ireland's largest-ever Andy Warhol exhibition is opening this October at Hugh Lane Gallery.

✉️ Sign up to our mailing list to be the first in line for tickets to our pre-sale https://bit.ly/3JYhWHY

Pictured: Dr. Barbara Dawson, Director of Hugh Lane Gallery & Co-Curator, Lord Mayor of Dublin Daithí de Róiste, Mairead Owens, City Librarian, and Richard Shakespeare, Assist. Chief Executive, Dublin City Council.

Andy Warhol Three Times Out.

Ireland's largest-ever Andy Warhol exhibition is opening this October at Hugh Lane Gallery.

✉️ Sign up to our mailing list to be the first in line for tickets to our pre-sale https://bit.ly/3JYhWHY

Pictured: Dr. Barbara Dawson, Director of Hugh Lane Gallery & Co-Curator, and Michael Dempsey, Head of Exhibitions & Co-Curator

“As society navigates the age of social media and surveillance capitalism – how our data is being captured and monetized - it is impossible to overlook Warhol’s prescient vision so relevant to us today.” – Dr. Barbara Dawson, Director of Hugh Lane Gallery & Co-Curator of Andy Warhol Three Times Out

Andy Warhol Three Times Out. Ireland's largest ever Andy Warhol exhibition is coming this October to Hugh Lane Gallery.

✉️ Sign up to our mailing list to be the first in line for tickets to our pre-sale https://bit.ly/3JYhWHY

Pictured: Dr. Barbara Dawson, Director of Hugh Lane Gallery & Co-Curator.

“Today's news will generate excitement not just amongst Irish audiences but will attract international visitors to Dublin to see a Warhol exhibition on this scale” – Lord Mayor of Dublin, Daithí de Róiste.

Andy Warhol Three Times Out. Ireland's largest-ever Andy Warhol exhibition is opening this October at Hugh Lane Gallery.

✉️ Sign up to our mailing list to be the first in line for tickets to our pre-sale https://bit.ly/3JYhWHY

Pictured: Dr. Barbara Dawson, Director of Hugh Lane Gallery & Co-Curator
and Lord Mayor of Dublin Daithí de Róiste.

Shark Lady in a Balldress by Dorothy Cross will be one of the 3D artworks under discussion during Yseult O'Driscoll's tour for people with a hearing impairment Fri 14 July at 11am at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Places still available and see more here https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/hearing-impairment-tours-14-july/

Through the architect Daniel Chester French, O'Connor was awarded the commission about 1900 or earlier for a pair of bronze doors for the Church of Saint Bartholomew, New York. Mrs Vanderbilt had restored the church as a memorial to her husband Cornelius and O'Connor's bronze doors were part of his memorial. Subsequently, the sculptor was commissioned to execute a relief for the tympanum above the door and two friezes which would link the central portico with subsidiary doors on either side.

Vanderbilt Memorial Church Doors (The Model for the Bronze Doors of St Bartholomew's Church, New York), Andrew O'Connor (1874 - 1941), Collection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.

📢 Last Call! 🎨 Our spectacular exhibition of 'New Acquisitions' is coming to a close tomorrow! Don't miss your chance to immerse yourself in the world of art and bid farewell to these mesmerizing creations. Join us one last time and let your imagination run wild! 🌟

📅 Ends: Tomorrow, 9th July
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Art has an incredible way of transcending boundaries, and this masterpiece is no exception. It whispers stories of joy, passion, and liberation, inviting us to join the dance of life. 💫✨

Happy Weekend!

Credits - A Grecian Harvest Home [3 of 17 Prints], James Barry (1741 - 1806), Collection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.

It's Giveaway time here at Hugh Lane Gallery!

We are giving away 2 places at our upcoming THREE-DAY SUMMER CAMP FOR 11-13 YEAR OLDS to the value of €80.

The Magic of Light! Summer Camp starts Tues 11 July - Thurs 13 July 2023, 2.30pm-4.30pm.

All you have to do is:
1 - Like on Facebook or Instagram
2 - Comment who you think should win this amazing prize.
3 - Share this post on Facebook or Instagram stories

More details here: https://bit.ly/44781rI

Best of luck!

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Hugh Lane Gallery wishes everyone a joyful Pride weekend, especially our colleagues across Dublin City Council participating in the Pride parade on Saturday.

We always extend an open invitation to everyone to visit the gallery and experience the power of art in fostering dialogue, empathy, and love.

[ANNOUNCEMENT]

The IN CONVERSATION: ARTIST RODNEY DICKSON which was scheduled tomorrow 6pm has been POSTPONED due to unforeseen circumstances.

Apologies for the inconvenience!

We are delighted to welcome Nancy J Troy, artist John Beattie and artist Mark O’Kelly for a morning of talks and discussion; as well as the launch of the catalogue for John Beattie: Reconstructing Mondrian.

Nancy Troy will present a keynote lecture and discuss her work and research on Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl movement, in response to John Beattie’s exhibition Reconstructing Mondrian. Troy, who lectrures at Stanford University, is author of The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian, among other books on twentieth-century art and visual culture.

John Beattie will present on the making of his work Reconstructing Mondrian, a ten year project, produced and directed by Beattie and on exhibition at the Hugh Lane Gallery till 6th August.

Artist Mark O’Kelly will chair the talks and moderate a post-talks Q&A.

For more details and bookings please click here - https://bit.ly/42QDYTF

Book for free or come on the day subject to availability.