Frances Kelly

Frances Kelly (born Frances Josephine Kelly; 1908 – 2002,[1][2][3] usually known as Judy Boland,[4] was an Irish painter. She is known for being the wife of Frederick Boland, an Irish diplomat who served as the United Nations representative for Ireland; by the age of twenty seven, when she married, she had attained prominence as a painter.[5]

Frances Kelly
Born
Frances Josephine Kelly

1908
Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
Died2002
NationalityIrish
EducationMetropolitan School of Art, Dublin
Known forPainting
Spouse(s)Frederick Boland

Early life

Kelly was born in 1908 in Coolagh Bridge, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.[6] She studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, Ireland, and, from 1932–1935, in Paris, France with the cubist painter Léopold Survage.[7][8]

Artistic career

In Ireland, she painted the murals in Tullamore Hospital, Dublin, and those at the old Russell Hotel. Kelly specialized in still life works. In 1935, she married Irish diplomat Frederick Boland.[9] They had a son, Fergal,[10] and four daughters (Jane, Nessa, Mella,[11] and the poet Eavan Boland.[12] Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[13]

Paintings

References
  1. "PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - PN Review 220 Contents".
  2. "Kelly, Frances J., 1908–2002 | Art UK".
  3. "Frances Kelly ARHA 1908 - 2002, Irish Artist".
  4. Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 14
  5. Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 13
  6. Irish Writing London: Volume 2, Post-war to the Present, ed. Tom Herron, Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 46
  7. Irish Writing London: Volume 2, Post-war to the Present, ed. Tom Herron, Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 46
  8. Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. xx
  9. Who was Who: A Companion to Who's Who, containing the biographies of those who died, vol. VIII, 1981-1990, A. & C. Black, p. 71
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-05-08. Retrieved 2008-02-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 16
  12. Quirke genealogy and family history: of Clonmel, county Tipperary, Ireland; India, New Zealand, England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States, Terence T. Quirke, 2005, p. 183
  13. "Frances J. Kelly". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
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