Butler spent most of her life in the family home at Kilmurry with frequent trips to England and the continent. Her father, Henry Butler, was an amateur artist favouring subjects from nature he encountered on journeys abroad, in particular exotic plants and animals. Butler's quirky titles such as Ancient Rubbish, A Tit-Bit and Chucked Green Eyed Jealousy: Ravens amongst trees show the artist's playful sensibility. Knowledge of Butler's life and working methods are almost entirely on the watercolours themselves and on her diaries, which are preserved for most years between 18. Mildred Anne was born in 1858 in Kilmurry, a Georgian House near Thomastown and was the youngest daughter of Captain Henry Butler, a grandson of the Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret. She is celebrated in a postage stamp by An Post. Around four hundred pieces of her work were sold as part of the artist's studio sale in 1980. She virtually stopped painting by the 1930s due to arthritis and died in 1941, aged 83. She was one of the first academicians elected by the Ulster Academy of Arts in 1930.
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She became an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1896 and was granted full membership in 1937. It was the second work by a female artist to be purchased by the trustees of the Chantrey Bequest and was then presented to the Tate. In 1896, Butler's Morning Bath was exhibited at the Royal Academy. She became a member of the Royal Academy in 1893. Among her patrons were Queen Mary of Teck and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. She achieved distinction in her lifetime and exhibited in major galleries in Ireland and England. Mildred Anne's en plein air style is dominated by the theme of nature and reflects scenes of domesticity around the family home in Kilmurry. Butler was born and spent most of her life in Kilmurry, Thomastown, County Kilkenny and was associated with the Newlyn School of painters. Mildred Anne Butler RA RWS (11 January 1858 – 11 October 1941) was an Irish artist, who worked in watercolour and oil of landscape, genre and animal subjects. She lives in Austin, Tx with her husband, daughter and two dogs. Katy is represented by Adriann Ranta Zurhellen at Foundry Literary and Media. She is also the illustrator of Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, written by Taisia Kitaiskaia and published by Seal Press. She has completed two painting residencies at The Vermont Studio Center and was a finalist for the 2015 Hunting Art Prize. It has been published in a number of books including Fantagraphic's Beasts! and The Exquisite Book (Chronicle Books) and Dark Inspiration II (Victionary), as well as in numerous publications such as Juxtapoz Magazine and New American Paintings (no. Her work has exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada.
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Tiny Showcase will donate 15% of our profits from sales of this print edition. Other print release by Katy: Vile and Black of Heart & She Wept So Much…, 2019. Please allow an extra 3 business days for processing. Please allow three weeks for the completion of your custom, hand-made frame.Īlso available with custom-cut, museum matting for standard size frames. The hand-made frames are made from locally-milled wood with inlaid splines in each corner for added strength. Framed artwork is archivally matted and hung with UV-protective glass. The original gouache paintings were created for the book Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers written by Taisia Kitaiskaia and illustrated by Katy Horan.Īvailable hand-framed in maple with archival mat and glass by Vermont's Joel Taplin of Taplin MFG. The artwork has been printed on a heavy 290gsm natural white paper. An edition of 100 of each painting was created by Tiny Showcase and ship with a certificate of authenticity. Both prints measures 6 inches wide by 8 inches tall and the artwork measures 5 inches wide by 7 inches tall. Butler & Mary Shelley is a limited edition set of archival prints by Katy Horan.
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