Nano Reid
Nano Reid wad born in Louth and studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin under the instruction of Sean Keating (1889-1977) and Harry Clarke (1889-1931). She later studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiére and following this attended Central School in London where she studied under Bernard Meninsky (1891-1950). Reid returned to Ireland in 1930s and exhibited with the RHA until the inauguration of the Irish Exhibition of Living Artists in 1943 where she found a new vehicle of exhibition with other proponents of more experimental art. She exhibited regularly with other organisations also, including a solo show with Dublin Painters Society in 1934.
Reid is best known for her landscape paintings, reminiscent of Fauvist Raoul Dufy (1877-1953). She combines figuration and abstraction in her renderings of local life and landscape set around her home in Drogheda. Like contemporaries such as Keating and Paul Henry (1876-1958), Reid spent time on the west coast of Ireland and painted subjects there.
Among her achievements, Reid exhibited alongside Norah McGuinness at the Venice Biennale in 1950 and exhibited at the Guggenheim International Exhibition in New York in 1960. Her work is in a number of important collections, including the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Hugh Lane.
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Reid is best known for her landscape paintings, reminiscent of Fauvist Raoul Dufy (1877-1953). She combines figuration and abstraction in her renderings of local life and landscape set around her home in Drogheda. Like contemporaries such as Keating and Paul Henry (1876-1958), Reid spent time on the west coast of Ireland and painted subjects there.
Among her achievements, Reid exhibited alongside Norah McGuinness at the Venice Biennale in 1950 and exhibited at the Guggenheim International Exhibition in New York in 1960. Her work is in a number of important collections, including the Arts Council of Ireland and Dublin City Hugh Lane.
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