271:: 'An almost embarrassing candor... Here is a painter who seems to have gone back to the older tradition and to have given the most searching consideration to the composition of his painting.' Dublin, which likes authors who write with a shillelagh, understood an artist who painted with one. The Word Is Tension. By 1950, Paddy was in Paris... Nights, he went to the galleries, and there he found what he wanted to do. He liked such old French masters as the 17th century's Nicolas Poussin, the 19th century's EugĂšne Delacroix, such moderns as Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti and Britain's Francis Bacon. The much-admired decorative style of the Matisses is not for Paddy Swift. 'Art,' he thinks, 'is obviously capable of expressing something more closely related to life than these elegant designs.' His main idea is to suggest the tensions he finds in life. 'I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension â tension is the only word for it â can be painted.'" This may have been Swift's only interview. A motif of his work at this time was his bird imagery, which appear to have symbolic overtones, and may have even been a subtle form of self-portraiture. From early on he was involved with literary magazines, such as
1514:(Gandon Editions 1993) writing about Swift's Algarve tree paintings: "Here his painting, which before had been sophisticated and âculturedâ, was stripped bare and became a paean of praise, both voluptuous and sacred, to a perennial Spring. His exaltation bursts forth in a blaze of colour â like in Soutine, but a Soutine of happiness. He is intoxicated by a joy that casts away the erudite codes of style and revelled in the tangibility of the natural world. Impatiently, Patrick Swift searches out the roots of inner essence. A conjunction of opposites, of a characteristically fiery imagination and the cool verdure of plants and trees produced a kind of ânaturalism' â but one which is the antithesis of timid conformity and mediocrity and could only have emerged from a process of rediscovering and reshaping a lost innocence... Patrick Swiftâs paintings are an act of praise and wonder." Swift in 1952 also mentions "naturalism": "He sees an inevitable swing in modern art from surrealism to naturalism, but adds at once: 'It must be a purely visual and personal naturalism without the formulae of the academics.'"(AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY â QUIDNUNC, Seamus Kelly,
1833:, 11 June 1992; "It may have been in some seedy, arty Soho pub that Edward met the Irish painter Patrick Swift... Swiftâs work is currently neglected but I have little doubt that it was the biggest factor in forming Edwardâs own style, and Anthony Cronin agrees with me... that he admitted the debt himself: âhe always said that it was Swift who put him on the right roadâ. But exactly where they first met is impossible to say; both men are dead and Swiftâs widow, Mrs Oonagh Swift, says she does not know the details of her late husbandâs early life ... is certain, however, that Freud came regularly in the summer of 1951, or possibly 1952, to a studio Patrick Swift had in Hatch Street. Is it possible that Edward had met Swift as early as this, and if so, did he encounter Freud there? ... His debt to Lucian Freud has been stressed, but the debt to Patrick Swift is less known, though Edward told Harriet Cooke in an interview for The Irish Times (17 April 1978): âPatrick Swift was instrumental in my starting to paint; Patrick Swift and Lucian Freud, they were both people I was in sympathy with.â" â
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looking at during the act of painting. A faithfulness of the sort was part of the bargain, part of his contract with his art⊠had nothing to do with descriptionâŠWhat was at stake was a faithful recreation of the truth to the artist of the experience, in the painterâs case the visual experience, the artist being admittedly only one witness, one accomplice during and after the fact. Of course this faithfulness did not rule out expressionist overtones. The truth was doubtless subjective as well as objective. Swift's blues and greys were usually properties of what he was painting. They were also part of his vision of things, properties of his mind. We felt then that time could only find its full expression through an art that was frugal, ascetic, puritanical even...In faraway Paris, Samuel
Beckett felt the same thing, writing the trilogy that was to give asceticism, frugality, puritanisim and the bitter humour that lies at the heart of the joke that is life, their full expression. Swift's avoidance of warm colours... was born in that time and afterwards harked back to it
1527:"A more rewarding approach to painting, in my opinion the only valid one, is to regard it as a deeply personal and private activity" â Swift, "By Way of Preface", from a Report to the Committee of Cultural Relations, Dept of External Affairs, on a Year spent in Italy in the study of Art & Painting, December 1955; "The Art of painting is itself an intensely personal activity. It may be labouring the obvious to say so but it is too little recognised in art journalism now that a picture is a unique and private event in the life of the painter: an object made alone with a man and a blank canvas... A real painting is something which happens to the painter once in a given minute; it is unique in that it will never happen again and in this sense is an impossible object. It is judged by the painter simply as a success or failure without qualification. And it is something which happens in life not in art: a picture which was merely the product of art would not be very interesting and could tell us nothing we were not already aware of." â "The Painter in the Press",
551:, a remarkable publication which, in some respects, was light years ahead of its time ... Swift's criticism is that of the practicing artist not that of a practicing critic, and when speaking of his criticism I do not merely mean only his occasional critical essays, but his activity as co-editor of a magazine and as champion of Bacon, Freud, Auerbach, Craigie Aitchison, Nano Reid, Giacometti and David Bomberg (whose posthumous papers he edited). This is criticism in the valid, active, propagandistic sense, not merely the daily or weekly grind of reviewing all sorts and conditions of artists, good and bad, but mostly mediocre. Once again much of Swift's activity in this field was semi-underground, almost subversive, often done in the teeth of the modernist establishment of his day. His record in this field speaks for itself... I cannot think of any other Irish painter who achieved anything like what he did as a critic and editor and discoverer of talent, and very few painters in any other country either.
172:: "He was never in any doubt that painting was a re-creation of what the painter saw: in his own case at least not what the painter had seen or could imagine, but what he was actually looking at during the act of painting. A faithfulness of the sort was part of the bargain, part of his contract with his art⊠had nothing to do with descriptionâŠWhat was at stake was a faithful recreation of the truth to the artist of the experience, in the painterâs case the visual experience, the artist being admittedly only one witness, one accomplice during and after the fact. Of course this faithfulness did not rule out expressionist overtones. The truth was doubtless subjective as well as objective. Swift's blues and greys were usually properties of what he was painting. They were also part of his vision of things, properties of his mind. We felt then that time could only find its full expression through an art that was frugal, ascetic, puritanical even."
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1510:, John McGahern, Edited by Stanley van der Ziel, Faber & Faber, 2009). Swift wrote in his Italian Notebook (Gandon Editions 1993): "I think that I probably have a real talent for painting trees if I developed it assiduously. I want to give them great density and depth pile heaps of detail into them and yet keep the sense of presence which is the whole point. I have started the painting of the palm tree outside the window. I can go straight at it because I have wanted to paint one for so long and have looked longingly into them so often in so many places". His later work is almost exclusively "tree portraits" and rural landscapes.
434:. At the time Swift was sometimes referred to as the "poets' painter" â many of his close friends were poets and they seem to have regarded him as "their" painter. Apart from close family members, poets were almost exclusively subjects of his portraits. Regarding these London portraits Fallon says, "once again, his approach was basically humanist, not formalist... are among the finest portraits painted in Britain at this period... Yet they were seen by only a handful of people, and in some cases were even lucky to have survived." In 1962 Swift left London for an extended trip to southern Europe.
2093:), however, says that the idea of Jimmy Swift invading the poet's flat is a myth. Quinn states that Kavanagh had a typescript rejected by Macmillan's ("Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast") and that subsequently Swift, on one of his trips to Dublin, "was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published. He had to return to London⊠but persuaded Kavanagh to entrust the precious typescript to his brother, Jimmy, to have three copies professionally typed up... acting under his brothers instructions... sent one copy each to David Wright and
1721:"A motif of Swift's work at this time was his bird imagery, which appeared to him to have symbolic overtones, and may even have been a subtle form of self-portraiture. Certainly Seamus Kelly, in his 'Quidnunc' column a few days after the Waddington opening, noted that the artist himself resembled one of his own birds â beaknosed, sharp-eyed, wiry, with a kind of nervous, intense presence. The self-portrait mentioned bears this out, with its questioning, almost withdrawn look. This is the typical Irish artist-intellectual of the post-war years..." â
1590:, Cousin of Samuel. Cronin: "John was Samâs uncle Jamesâs son, so he and Sam were first cousins, though in terms of age they could well have been uncle and nephew. John was a composer, a pianist and a harpsichordist. Portly and dark, he was quite unlike Sam in appearance but, as an artist himself and with a knowledge of painting as well as books and music, he was closer to him in spirit than the rest of the family. In Dublin he belonged to a circle which included Brendan Behan and Patrick Swift as well as the present writer." (Anthony Cronin,
399:: "In London his style changed, not immediately, but gradually and very thoroughly. In fact, it was less a stylistic change than a transformation. From being a painter with sharp, angular lines and a thin paint surface, he became one who âdrew with the brushâ. Modelled in heavy, laden strokes, and in general, daubed and dragged the paint around until it did his bidding. Stylistically, his âfirst periodâ and âsecond periodâ could hardly be more different from one another, though the underlying sensibility somehow remains."
555:, it is true, was a verbose propagandist, but on the whole he was a bad critic, and somehow his propaganda almost always turns out to be some form of self-aggrandisement, whereas Swift almost always pushed the fortunes and reputations of his friends and almost never his own. Yet, you do not get, from his general stance, that his motives were simply friendship and good intentions. There is a tone of dedication throughout, as though he was serving art, and not merely artists... It is a peculiarity of his very individual
1506:(Swift drew his portrait in London in 1960) noted that he was fond of the line "those particular trees/ that caught you in their mysteries": "It was he who first told me how well Constable wrote in letters about trees, especially the plane trees, with their peeled strips of bark â âThey soak up the polluted air' â and he quoted a favourite line, 'those particular trees/ that caught you in their mysteriesâ, mentioning that he preferred trees to flowers" ("The Bird Swift",
1401:, Gandon Editions, 1993; "In the world in which we all moved at that time, I used to be curious as to the detachment Paddy showed to the market place, at his indifference to the fashionable galleries where Freud and Bacon were the beckoning lights, along with Frank Auerbach; it was as if he'd taken Joyce's Stephen Daedalus to heart â that once the work is created, it is no longer anything to do with the artist, who simply stands aside and pares his nails." â
263:"Irish critics got a look at the work of a tousled young (25) man named Paddy Swift and tossed their caps in the air. Paddy's 30 canvases are as grey and gloomy as Dublin itself â harshly realistic paintings of dead birds and rabbits, frightened-looking girls and twisted potted plants. Their fascination is in the merciless, sharply etched details, as oppressive and inquiring as a back-room third degree. Dublin Understands. Wrote Critic Tony Gray in
1955:"...his ability to communicate certain truths on what one senses to be a deeply spiritual level. It is perhaps this quality in his work which links Swift with the world of poetry and poets. Apart from close family members, poets were almost exclusively subjects of his portraits; the series of poet portraits shown at IMMA are quite exceptional by any standards and must place him among the very best Irish painters of the twentieth century." â
2262:, 20 Feb 1994; "Probably no painter here since the Literary Revival has had a more central role in cultural life in the broader sense. And not only in Ireland either; Swift was a seminal figure in London too, even if the general public knew very little of him... There can be few Irishmen of his epoch, whether poets or painters or novelists, who are of such biographical interest and who touched their age at so many key points." â
1629:; "He had met Freud by 1949... My grasp of chronology is not always accurate, but certainly the acquaintance was well-developed by 1950 when we shared the ground-floor of a house in Hatch Street together. Lucian, who was staying in Ireland, used to come around in the mornings to paint, so that sometimes when I would surface around ten or eleven I would find them both at work in the studio next door." â Anthony Cronin,
1397:, Gandon Editions Biography, 1993; "And one day I found him in his underground flat in Westbourne Terrace busily taking down all his canvases (or rather hardboards, for in those days he couldnât afford canvas) from the walls and stowing them away in a cellar. His reason was: a millionaire art fancier had rung up to say he was calling and Swift did not want him to buy, or so much as see, his work." â David Wright,
2256:, 24 Jan 1994; "A man who made his paintings talk... He may well be one of the greatest of Irish painters. When the dust has settled and the critics have had their say, the paintings will speak for themselves... His paintings hold you and address you in a language so intimate and disturbingly personal that even if you don't know much about art you are aware you have been moved at a visceral level." â
1480:(1951): "No clichĂ©s are employed to simplify his task and no tricks are superimposed to foster an illusion of originality. Academicians and abstractionists will equally deplore him, and probably for the same reasons. He has rejected the debased technique of the one and the dogmas of the other. He paints what he sees." â "Patrick Swift", by John Ryan,
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Portugal" exhibitions that were held at the Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, and Palacio Foz in Lisbon. In 2004 Swift's work appeared on the BBC Antiques Roadshow. In 2005 the Office of Public Works, Dublin, held an exhibition of paintings, drawings and watercolours by Swift. His portrait of Patrick Kavanagh forms part of the
1435:"Though his style changed considerably over the years, his essential personality as an artist never did. He was plainly not interested in the formalist aspects of Modernism... He wanted art to have an expressive, emotive, even psychological content, though not in any literary sense."â Brian Fallon,"Patrick Swift and Irish Art" (1993),
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2117:, Antoinette Quinn, Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2001, p. 359.) Kavanagh would often stay with Swift and his family at 9 Westbourne Terrace. Regarding their friendship, Antoinette Quinn says, "Swift believed in his genius and indulged him and... the older man... came to lean on Swift as a beloved nephew."(
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in this artistic climate, he was less isolated in Irish art than he appears today... he belonged â insofar as a man so individualistic can belong to any specific trend â to a tendency which showed itself in the Living Art exhibitions of the early 1950s. It was in this context that Swift first made
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Editions published a biography of Swift to coincide with the IMMA Retrospective. The IMMA Retrospective was acclaimed by critics and artists alike. In 2002 the Department of Foreign Affairs (who also awarded Swift the grant to study in Italy) sponsored the "Patrick Swift: An Irish
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commented on Swift's "uncompromising clarity of vision which eschews the accidental or the obvious or the sentimental" and "shows his power to convey the full impact of the object, as though the spectator were experiencing it for the first time." In 1952 he held his first solo exhibition at the
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artist through and through...Fidelity to visual experience above all.") Though his style changed considerably over the years, his essential personality as an artist never did. He was plainly not interested in the formalist aspects of
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Porches restaurant, designing the interior; he designed the Rouxinol restaurant in Monchique; the original building and entrance to the International School of the Algarve, which Swift was instrumental in
1667:, Gandon Editions, 2001; "Patrick Swift had graduated from the National College of Art and immediately established himself as a significant painter with work shown at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1950. In addition to painting, he had wide intellectual and literary interests." â
1603:"Freud had already shown in London and Paris when he came to Dublin in 1948 , partly on a pilgrimage to Jack B Yeats, who had just enjoyed a retrospective at the Tate; and whom Freud declared the greatest living painter⊠Freud seemed closest to artist Paddy Swift⊠In September 1951
2089:(OUP, 1988): "These poems had been posted to me by Swift, whose brother James had invaded the poet's flat in Dublin, gathered up the trampled manuscripts scattered about the floor, and had them sorted, typed, and bound. One of the carbon copies was sent to me." Antoinette Quinn (
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2007:, which was launched in London in 1959 and ran until 1961. Not much of a run, perhaps, but it had a remarkably distinguished list of contributors, including Beckett and Giacometti ..." â "The fall and rise of Patrick Swift", Brian Fallon, The Irish Times, 11 June 1992
143:, which revived a dying industry. During his lifetime Swift had only two solo exhibitions. His first exhibition at the Waddington Gallery, Dublin, in 1952 was well acclaimed. For Swift, however, his art seems to have been a personal and private matter. In 1993 the
1570:"In the late forties and early fifties, there was a house in Lower Baggot Street, where rooms could be rented by the day or night for lectures, meetings, or for any other lawful purpose. Patrick Swift, the artist, had a flat in this house." â
2101:, Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2001, pp. 350-351). Wright's version of events is, no doubt, the story put out by Swift himself, and one which would not have displeased Kavanagh. Swift was also instrumental in the publication of Kavanagh's
2293:) The BBC art expert, Stephen Somerville, was highly praising of his work, saying simply of a London tree painting: "I love it". The father of the lady who brought Swift's work to the ARS seems to have been a sort of patron of Swiftâs.
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1926:; "In London Swift, almost inevitably, moved into the Soho bohemia which included Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, George Barker, W.S. Graham, John Minton, William Crozier" â "The fall and rise of Patrick Swift", Brian Fallon,
2244:, 28 November 1993; "His exhibition at the Royal Hospital quite simply bowled me over, and I realised at once that I was looking at pictures by probably the most formidable Irish artist of this century â perhaps including
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in 1950. Following his mother's funeral Beckett spent the afternoon with Swift in McDaid's, later to be joined by the rowdy Kavanagh & O'Nolan (Gandon Editions Biography, 1993). Beckett was later to contribute to
2105:(1964). Martin Green (who put together the collection for MacGibbon and Kee in 1964): "It was following the suggestion of the painter Patrick Swift and the poet Anthony Cronin that the publication came about."(
1557:"He was largely self taught (although, in any case, the kind of art teaching which Dublin offered at the time would merely have frustrated or enraged him)" â Brian Fallon, "Patrick Swift and Irish Art" (1993),
833:(On his Sixtieth Birthday), John Heath-Stubbs & Martin Green, -eds, Martin Brian & O'Keefe Ltd (1973); includes Swift's portrait of Barker and Swift's essay on Barker, "Prolegomenon to George Barker".
1990:"He moved to London, a melting pot of cultural and artistic ideas. At home in 'the Bohemian jungle of Soho', he partook of artistic and, always, literary life." â Aidan Dunne, "The lost hope of Irish art",
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1829:, 28 November 1993; "McGuireâs starting point as an artist was Swiftâs work, a fact which he himself repeatedly acknowledged" â Brian Fallon, "The fall and rise of Patrick Swift",
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2005 Paintings, drawings and watercolours by Patrick Swift, Office of Public Works Atrium, Dublin, Ireland
809:, Anthony Cronin, Dolmen Press, Dublin (1976); includes a portrait of Anthony Cronin by Swift on the cover
736:, translated into modern English prose by David Wright (London, Harris, 1964); endpapers by Patrick Swift.
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1914:"Christopher Barker on his parents, George Barker and Elizabeth Smart| Books | The Observer"
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1633:, 1993 IMMA Retrospective Catalogue. Freud's visits in the fifties coincided with his courtship of
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620:, Irish Museum of Modern Art Retrospective Catalogue(1993); Anthony Cronin (poet) and
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906:, ed. Hugh McFadden, Dedalus Press, Dublin ( 2008); "Second Letter: To Patrick Swift"
895:: Patrick Swift Obituary, PN Review 34, Volume 10 Number 2, November - December 1983
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934:'AN IRISHMAN'S DIARY' - QUIDNUNC (Seamus Kelly), The Irish Times, 11 October 1952
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Swift regarded painting as "a deeply personal and private activity". (In 1952
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heavy, broken impasto and some of his later work verges on becoming abstract.
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1301:"Mob Morals and the Art of loving Art" (under the pseudonym "James Mahon"),
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656:, Numbers 1â4, November 1959-October 1960, Barrie & Rockliff (1961)
506:). Wright declared Swift to be "the true begetter and leading light of
179:, "tree portraits" (trees held a special fascination for Swift), rural
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Trespassers: A Memoir, Julia O'Faolain (Faber & Faber 2013)
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839:, Carcanet Press Ltd (1 July 1988); "Images for a Painter".
650:, Theo Snoddy, Merlin Publishing, Dublin (2002), p. 640
607:, selected by David Wright, Oxford University Press (1988).
360:. During his residency at Digswell he painted many views of
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Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne
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594:, Veronica O'Mara (ed.), Gandon Editions, Kinsale (1993).
352:. October 1958 â October 1959 he held a fellowship at the
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683:, Randolph Cary, Barrie & Rockliff, London (1973)
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1751:"Nano Reid", by Patrick Swift, Envoy, March 1950;
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1036:(Dec 2013 - Feb 2014), Portrait of Anthony Cronin
992:2002 An Irish Painter in Portugal Retrospective,
777:, Denis Sampson, Oxford University Press (2012).
2409:Alumni of the National College of Art and Design
912:, Carcanet Press Ltd (1998); "For Patrick Swift"
862:Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan
815:, CH Sission, Carcanet Press, Manchester (1989).
947:"The lost hope of Irish art", Aidan Dunne, The
864:, ed. by Hugh McFadden, Lilliput Press (2006).
765:, Antoinette Quinn, Gill & Macmillan (2003)
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364:and its Springs, one of which was presented by
344:offer to share Winstone Cottage (then owned by
1671:, Denis Sampson, Oxford University Press, 2012
1192:National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland,
821:, David Gascoyne (ed.) (Paladin, London, 1992)
803:, John Ryan, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin (1975)
2404:Alumni of the Académie de la Grande ChaumiÚre
2047:Swift believed in Kavanagh and promoted him.
1088:"Drawings, watercolours, gouache, ceramics",
954:"The legacy of Patrick Swift", Brian Fallon,
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2289:Rotherham Roadshow, Sunday 3 October 2004 (
827:, Rosemary Sullivan (Flamingo, London, 1992)
2207:Patrick Swift: an Irish Painter in Portugal
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858:, Dorothy Walker, The Lilliput Press (1997)
797:, Brian Fallon, Irish Academic Press (1991)
769:The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker
1837:, Brian Fallon, Irish Academic Press, 1991
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335:Italy, Oakridge & Digswell Arts Trust
2205:, "Patrick Swift and Irish Art" (1993),
2136:Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist
1942:, "Patrick Swift And Irish Art" (1993),
1725:, "Patrick Swift and Irish Art" (1993),
1681:Monday, 20 Oct. 1952 (20 October 1952).
1669:Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist
1663:, "Patrick Swift and Irish Art" (1993),
775:Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist
98:http://painterpatrickswift.blogspot.com/
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1269:"The Bomberg Papers", edited by Swift,
1196:: Self-Portrait, c. 1950, ink on paper
831:Selected Poems, Homage to George Barker
667:(Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1968);
663:(Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1965);
2219:Patrick Swift 1927-83 - PS...of course
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1347:Envoy â A Review of Literature and Art
1337:Envoy - A Review of Literature and Art
825:By Heart - The Life of Elizabeth Smart
819:The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Smart
592:Patrick Swift 1927-83 - PS...of course
147:held a retrospective of Swift's work.
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771:, Robert Fraser, Jonathan Cape (2001)
671:(Barrie & Rockliff, London, 1971)
442:Swift's travels led him to the small
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2147:"The End or the Beginning of Love",
1127:Portrait of the Poet, Anthony Cronin
723:, Annie Sise, Readers Union (1976).
2399:People educated at Synge Street CBS
2035:PsâŠof Course, Patrick Swift 1927-83
1203:Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
1084:Warrington Museum & Art Gallery
402:London portraits include the poets
1916:. London: Guardian. 20 August 2006
1592:Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist
1167:National Portrait Gallery (London)
1051:- from IMMA's permanent collection
966:Paintings by Patrick Swift at the
927:"Young artist of promise", G.H.G,
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2359:20th-century Irish travel writers
2266:, "The legacy of Patrick Swift",
1467:Adams auctioneers catalogue notes
1328:"Painting â The RHA Exhibition",
1258:"Prolegomenon to George Barker",
1182:National Museums Northern Ireland
1092:, Dublin, 1954; five watercolours
1018:1952 Paintings by Patrick Swift,
2419:20th-century non-fiction writers
2238:, "The lost hope of Irish art",
2153:The End or the Beginning of Love
1825:, "The lost hope of Irish art",
452:Porches Pottery (Olaria Algarve)
348:), which contained a studio, in
120:In Dublin he formed part of the
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2016:David Wright's Introduction to
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1155:Forget-me-Knots on a cane table
1082:(1959) and presented it to the
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1043:, October 2010- February 2011;
1014:Algarve: a portrait and a guide
687:Algarve: a portrait and a guide
661:Algarve: a portrait and a guide
456:Algarve: a portrait and a guide
89:, criticism, poetry, literature
2389:Irish male non-fiction writers
2075:Come Dance with Kitty Stobling
2063:Come Dance with Kitty Stobling
1858:with whom she had a daughter,
1594:, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 453)
1284:, vol. I, no.4, October 1960;
1229:, Portrait of Patrick Kavanagh
1065:Portrait of Patrick Kavanagh (
1045:Forget-me-nots on a Cane Table
994:Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
721:My Love to the Beaks and Tails
695:Lisbon: a portrait and a guide
669:Lisbon: a portrait and a guide
576:Forget-me-nots on a Cane Table
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2414:Irish expatriates in Portugal
2354:20th-century British painters
2123:Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography
2119:Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography
2115:Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography
2099:Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography
2091:Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography
2071:Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography
1893:Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography
1683:"Art: Life with a Shillelagh"
1654:"Yet, while Swift may seem a
1298:, vol. I, no., November, 1959
910:Collected Poems, C.H. Sission
763:Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography
691:Minho: a portrait and a guide
665:Minho: a portrait and a guide
128:bohemia where, with the poet
2138:by Denis Sampson (OUP, 2012)
2107:Martin Green in a letter to
1775:Beckett had an extract from
1332:, vol. 17, no. 13, June 1951
1312:"Some notes on Caravaggio",
920:"Patrick Swift", John Ryan,
837:Selected Poems, David Wright
740:A Patrick Kavanagh Anthology
635:An Irish Painter in Portugal
311:(possibly one portrait) and
2374:Painters from Dublin (city)
2344:20th-century Irish painters
2181:who was first published in
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1305:, vol. I, no.3, June 1960;
1161:Self-Portrait in the Studio
1122:National Gallery of Ireland
1090:Victor Waddington Galleries
1034:National Gallery of Ireland
1020:Victor Waddington Galleries
968:Victor Waddington Galleries
904:Selected Poems, John Jordan
648:Dictionary of Irish Artists
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1008:1965 Desenhos do Algarve,
886:, Robert Fraser (OUP 2012)
681:Birds of Southern Portugal
464:The Merry Wives of Windsor
145:Irish Museum of Modern Art
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1239:, oil on board; image in
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370:Comberton Village College
350:Oakridge, Gloucestershire
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1107:Plants in a Potting Shed
1095:Contemporary Irish Art,
801:Remembering How We Stood
469:Francisco de SĂĄ Carneiro
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1946:, Gandon Editions, 2001
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1635:Lady Caroline Blackwood
1625:19 January 2012 at the
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1439:, Gandon Editions, 2001
1368:A circle that included
1264:Homage to George Barker
1243:, The Kelly Collection
717:, German edition (1966)
243:in Paris, where he met
233:National College of Art
76:Igreja Matriz (Porches)
1854:; formerly married to
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2274:Modern Art in Ireland
2191:Patrick Swift 1927-83
2053:Patrick Swift 1927-83
1940:Brian Fallon (critic)
1846:Sister of the artist
1764:Trespassers: A Memoir
1723:Brian Fallon (critic)
1661:Brian Fallon (critic)
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1609:Dead Cockâs Head 1951
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1335:"The Artist Speaks",
1227:Dublin Writers Museum
1218:Trees at St. Columb's
977:Patrick Swift 1927-83
856:Modern Art in Ireland
618:Patrick Swift 1927-83
2384:Painters from London
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1835:Edward McGuire - RHA
1472:21 July 2011 at the
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1282:X A Quarterly Review
1049:London Self-Portrait
795:Edward McGuire - RHA
752:Martello Spring 1984
734:The Canterbury tales
580:London Self-Portrait
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2087:An Anthology from X
2018:An Anthology from X
1307:An Anthology from X
1286:An Anthology from X
1275:An Anthology from X
1241:For the Love of Art
1103:Leicester Galleries
605:An Anthology from X
354:Digswell Arts Trust
329:Digswell Arts Trust
253:The Dublin Magazine
223:He was educated at
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1296:X Quarterly Review
1187:Positano Palm Tree
1139:Gnarled Olive Tree
1099:, Aberystwth, 1953
1060:Study (with Holly)
1056:Study (with Holly)
1010:DiĂĄrio de NotĂcias
951:, 28 November 1993
916:Selected articles
460:DiĂĄrio de NotĂcias
229:Christian Brothers
2394:Irish art critics
1643:artprice.com link
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1617:Irish Arts Review
1508:Love Of The World
1250:Articles by Swift
1027:Group exhibitions
958:, 2 December 1993
876:Irish Arts Review
807:Dead as Doornails
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