Gallery Collection

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26 June 2008

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane houses the foremost collection of modern and contemporary art in Ireland. The Eve of St Agnes by celebrated Irish stained glass artist Harry Clarke is on view alongside other exemplary stained glass work.  On view from the gallery's permanent collection as part of the Hugh Lane 100 Years centenary celebrations are paintings from the Hugh Lane Bequest by Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Edouard Vuillard.  In addition there are paintings by artists such as William Orpen, Nathaniel Hone, John Lavery, James McNeill Whistler, George Russell, John Singer Sargent, Rodin, Augustus John, Simeon Solomon among others, drawing on a significant selection from the original 300 works of art shown when the gallery first opened in 1908.  Since opening in June this year the exhibition has been visited by 70,000 people and the majority of works from Hugh Lane 100 Years will now, due to popular demand continue to be shown for the remainder of the gallery's centenary year.