Sir William Orpen's The Man from Aran
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 The Man from Aran
1909
Sir William Orpen  (1878-1931) Irish painter
Owner?
Oil on canvas
  47 x 34  in.
signed bottom left - 'Orpen' 
 Jpg:  Friend of the JSS Gallery
 
  
From: Wendy & Gordon Hawksley 
<gw@whawksley.fsnet.co.uk> 
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002  
   
There is no apparent evidence that Orpen ever visited Aran. Orpen's intention in this painting was to produce a symbolic self portrait which identified with the cultural regeneration in Ireland at that time.  
 
 

Notes: 
Special thanks to Wendy & Gordon Hawksley, of Sheffield, England, friends of the JSS Gallery, for sending me a note regarding this image. 

 
 


By:  Natasha Wallace
Copyright 1998-2002 all rights reversed
Created 8/11/2002