page_title: Margaret Clarke (artist)
section_title: Artistic work
hierarchical_section_title: Margaret Clarke (artist) / Artistic work
caption_attribution_description: Title / Titre&#160;: Irish Free State Butter, Eggs and Bacon for our Breakfasts (Poster promoting Irish Free State farm goods for breakfast to Canadians.) / Du beurre, des œufs et du bacon de l’État libre d’Irlande au déjeuner Creator(s) / Créateur(s)&#160;: Margaret Clarke Date(s)&#160;: 1926-1934 Reference No. / Numéro de référence&#160;: C-126912 Location / Lieu&#160;: Unknown / Inconnu Credit / Mention de source&#160;: Canada. Patent and Copyright Office / Bureau des brevets et du droit d'auteur; Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada; C-126912.
context_page_description: Margaret Clarke RHA was an Irish portrait painter.
context_section_description: Clarke first exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1913, and would go on to exhibit over 60 artworks in the forty years until 1953, the majority being portraits. Amongst the portrait commissions Clarke received were ones for Dermod O'Brien, President Éamon de Valera, Archbishop McQuaid, and Lennox Robinson. Clarke spent a great deal of time on the Aran Islands with  fellow artist Seán Keating and her husband, from which she produced a number of landscapes and smaller studies.
  A critic noted in 1939 that Clarke produced "remarkable drawings in which individuality is caught in a few swift economical lines." Over her lifetime Clarke won many awards including the Tailteann gold, silver and bronze medals in 1924, and another Tailteann bronze in both 1928 and 1932. She was elected an Associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy (ARHA) in 1926, and a full RHA in 1927. Upon the founding of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943, she was appointed a member of the executive committee. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, The Hugh Lane, the Crawford Art Gallery, the Ulster Museum, Limerick City Gallery of Art, the National Self Portrait Collection, and the Irish College in Rome.
caption: Irish Free State Butter, Eggs and Bacon for our Breakfasts
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