Famous Paintings and their Hidden Histories
Triskel Arts Center Cork Tuesday 11. am November 3rd
https://triskelartscentre.ie/events/1-hawk-and-quarry-in-winter/
lecture number 1 of the popular series features the work of Tony O Malley, one of Irelands most beloved artists
Hawk and Quarry in Winter, in memory of Peter Lanyon is from the Crawford Gallery's collection in Cork, and was painted in 1964 in memory of a friend whose art school O Malley attended in St Ives in Cornwall between 1955 and 1957.
Although Peter Lanyon had died in August, O'Malley's observation of a hawk swooping down into a quarry recalled the fatal gliding accident and he chose a winter image to express his sorrow. It was also appropriate that O'Malley would paint his Lanyon picture in terms of place rather than person. Like O Malley himself, Peter Lanyon was an abstract painter, but he too was someone for whom a sense of place was central to his work.
