Literary Lives: Portraits from the Crawford Gallery and Abbey Theatre, Ireland

Literary Lives: Portraits from the Crawford Gallery and Abbey Theatre, Ireland  

Presented by McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College

September 4-December 5, 2010


Over the last several centuries, Irish artists have produced compelling and revealing portraits of Irish writers. Many of these portraits—paintings, sculptures, and photographs—were either commissioned or purchased by various Irish national collections. This exhibition comprises more than fifty of the finest examples from two of the most significant of these collections, the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Literary Lives combines visual portraiture with a wide range of rare books, manuscripts, letters, illustrations, and objects selected from Boston College's Burns Library to explore questions about the literary life, both personal and professional, and to reveal how different materials offer windows to different aspects of that life.



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Free


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Dates: September 4-December 5, 2010


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Mon-Fri: 11 am - 4 pm Sat-Sun: 12 pm - 5 pm

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Boston College McMullen Museum

140 Commonwealth Avenue, Devlin Hall
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467


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