GIBSON BEQUEST SUB-COMMITTEE SPECIAL MEETING
GIBSON BEQUEST SUB-COMMITTEE SPECIAL MEETING
‘Men of the South’ purchased
On 17 April 1924 the Gibson Bequest Sub-Committee [J.J. O’Connor, Councillor Barry Egan, Messrs. Corkery and Sharman Crawford] met to consider on reference from the Technical Instruction General Committee the recommendations contained in the minutes of the meeting held on 5 April. They decided to buy the Yeats’ and Harry Clarkes. It was ordered that A Man of the Crowd by Harry Clarke be submitted for the Committee’s inspection before purchase. They also decided to purchase Men of the Southby John Keating.*
It was resolved at the same meeting “that purchases of works of art, under the terms of the Bequest, and in accordance with the Committee’s regulations, be directed towards the formation of a Collection National in character.”
(Extract from Gibson Bequest Sub-Committee Minutes, 15 April 1924, p6)
*The artist Seán Keating was known as John Keating in the early 1920s and often signed his works with the Irish spelling of his surname, Céitinn.
Monday 20 November / Thursday 30 November 1922
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