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Tony O'Malley

Tony O'Malley (1913 - 2003) was active/lived in England, Ireland.  Tony OMalley is known for Abstract painting.

Tony O'Malley was a self-taught Irish painter.  He was born in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland and, while he drew and painted for private pleasure from childhood, he worked as a bank officìal until a long battle with tuberculosis in the 1940s knocked him off the normal course of his life.  He began painting in earnest while convalescing and, though he did at first return to bank work, he continued to paint and in 1951 he began exhibiting his work.

In 1955 he holidayed in St. Ives in Cornwall, then an important center of abstract art and home to Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, and Bryan Wynter, whom Tony O'Malley met and worked with on his trip.  He returned again in 1957, and in 1958 retired from the bank to paint full time.  Prompted by a mixture of frustration at the indifference shown in Ireland to his work, an attraction to the sense of freedom he felt among the artists in Cornwall, and an engagement with the attempt to represent natural forms current in th   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3761 characters.]  Artist bio

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