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Mainie (Mary Harriet) Jellett

Mainie (Mary Harriet) Jellett (1897 - 1944) was active/lived in Ireland, England, France.  Mainie Jellett is known for Cubist painting-religious themes.

Mary Harriet (Mainie) Jellett (1897-1944)

The abstract artist and figure painter Mainie Jellett was born in Dublin.  She studied drawing and fine art painting at the National College of Art in Dublin and under Walter Sickert at the Westminster Art School in London.  It was in London that she met her lifelong friend and fellow artist Evie Hone.

Jellett had precocious talent as a painter, and while starting out as a follower of Impressionism she began - as a result of her association with the Parisian abstract painter and teacher Albert Gleizes - to develop a greater interest in modern abstract art like Cubism.  Along with Evie Hone and Mary Swanzy, Jellett was one of the earliest abstract painters in the history of Irish art.

In 1923, together with a like-minded Evie Hone, she staged one of the first abstract painting exhibitions seen in Ireland at the Society of Dublin Painters. While the critics were horrified at the evident lack of "representationa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2981 characters.]  Artist bio

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