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Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts in 1946. McAdoo joined her friend Olive Henry at the seventeenth annual show of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers in 1950 when her watercolour was one of 550 selected works. McAdoo's work was also shown at
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Belfast City Hospital on 22 November 1961. She never married and had no children. The Royal Ulster Academy showed four of her works posthumously in the annual exhibition of 1962. McAdoo left donations to several charities in her last will and testament, including a bequest of
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Belfast Art Society with whom she began exhibiting in 1925. She was to continue showing with their successor organisations, the Ulster Academy and the Royal Ulster Academy, almost every year until her death.
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