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'Lost to Ireland: Harry Clarke's Geneva Window'
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By: Marie Mullan
Publisher: Columba Press
Published: October 2019
Pages: 1
Categories: Art
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781782189138
ASIN: 1782189130

2019 is the 130th anniversary of the birth of renowned Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator, Harry Clarke. The aim of this book is to introduce Irish people to one of Ireland's greatest and most neglected pieces of his art: The Geneva Window. The book provides a short biography of one of Ireland's greatest artists and the story of the commissioning in 1926 and then controversial rejection of his stained-glass window by the Irish Government in 1930 for being unrepresentative of Irish life. Lost to viewers for many years it was sold to The Wolfsonian Museum, Miami in 1988 where it is currently exhibited. There is now a growing interest in having the window returned to Ireland. The book includes each vivid panel from this beautiful piece of art and explains the story of the 15 pieces of Irish Literature that the window illustrates, all chosen by Harry Clarke and WB Yeats to represent the Irish Literary Revival (1850 -1926).

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