Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 12th November 2018

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 12 th N ovember 2018 at 6.00 pm 127 112 Gladys MacCabe ROI FRSA MA HRUA (1918-2018) The Green Room, Shelbourne Hotel signed lower left and titled on reverse oil on board 61 x 102cm (24 x 40in) Provenance: Taylor Gallery, Belfast; Private Collection €5,000-€7,000 (£4,464-£6,250) Gladys MacCabe was born in Co Antrim in 1918. One of her ancestors was a famous 18th-century Scottish painter, Sir George Chalmers. She had a picture published in the Royal Drawing Society’s magazine when she was 16 years old and went on to study at the Belfast College of Art. In 1941 she married fellow artist and musician Max MacCabe (who died in 2000). Gladys and Max exhibited together on many occasions, starting in Ireland at Robinson & Cleaver in Belfast, 1942, and in England at the Kens- ington Art Gallery in 1949. Gladys and Max were members of the group of artists known as The Contemporary Ulster Group, which included Daniel O’Neill, George Campbell, and Gerard Dillon. William Conor was also an associate and Gladys painted his portrait in 1957 (now hanging in the Ulster Folk Museum). She formed the Ulster Society of Women Artists in 1957, as she felt that there was an untapped wealth of talent among the women artists of Northern Ireland. The Society’s first major exhibition was in the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery in 1959.