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1926 New York City - 2017. Known for: Nude figure and portrait painting, writing, illustration.
Born in New York City of Irish parents, James Patrick Donleavy served in the US Navy during World War II. He came to Dublin after the war on the GI Bill of Rights programme and studied macrobiology... Read full biography
Born in New York City of Irish parents, James Patrick Donleavy served in the US Navy during World War II. He came to Dublin after the war on the GI Bill of Rights programme and studied macrobiology at Trinity College. Among his many friends were writers Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan and... Read full biography
Born in New York City of Irish parents, James Patrick Donleavy served in the US Navy during World War II. He came to Dublin after the war on the GI Bill of Rights programme and studied macrobiology at Trinity College. Among his many friends were writers Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan and painter Ralph Cusack. Attracting controversy as a painter he exhibited in the Stephen's Green Gallery in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Jack Yeats commented favourably on his work, especially on his oil... Read full biography
Born in New York City of Irish parents, James Patrick Donleavy served in the US Navy during World War II. He came to Dublin after the war on the GI Bill of Rights programme and studied macrobiology at Trinity College. Among his many friends were writers Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan and painter Ralph Cusack. Attracting controversy as a painter he exhibited in the Stephen's Green Gallery in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Jack Yeats commented favourably on his work, especially on his oil painting technique. It was as a writer that he was to find international fame and his first novel, The Ginger Man (1955) was hailed as a comic masterpiece. Among his other works are A Sin... Read full biography
Born in New York City of Irish parents, James Patrick Donleavy served in the US Navy during World War II. He came to Dublin after the war on the GI Bill of Rights programme and studied macrobiology at Trinity College. Among his many friends were writers Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan and painter Ralph Cusack. Attracting controversy as a painter he exhibited in the Stephen's Green Gallery in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Jack Yeats commented favourably on his work, especially on his oil painting technique. It was as a writer that he was to find international fame and his first novel, The Ginger Man (1955) was hailed as a comic masterpiece. Among his other works are A Sin... Read full biography
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- •Book Illustration
- •Magazine Illustration
- •Painting, Fine Art
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- •THE NEW YORKER Magazine Illustration, Cartoon or Photography