Life
1903-1980; b. Derry, dg. coal merchant and ship-owner; ed. National College
of Art, Dublin, and Chelsea Polytechnic; m. Geoffrey Phibbs (later Taylor),
divorced 1929; studied under André Lhote, in Paris; exhibited in
Sullivan and Reinhardt Galleries, New York, and designed windows for NY
department stores; president of Living Art Exhibition, 1944-72; RHA, 1957;
ill. books for Yeats; Abbey and Peacock stage designs; also designed Grafton
St. windows; 1950 Venice Biennale, with Nano Reid; widely travelled; retrospective
in Douglas Hyde Gallery, TCD; d. November 1980.
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)