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Thursday, October 8, 2015

PRIZE | Keating/McLaughlin Award–Query

One of Hilda van Stockum's "Three Bottles"  still lifes.
 © Estate of Hilda van Stockum. Photo shown here
by kind permission of the Estate.
The Keating/McLaughlin Award for Outstanding Art Work is awarded every year - a Silver Medal and a cash prize of €3,000 awarded by the ESB (Electricity Supply Board).

My mother won this medal in 1989 but no one can remember which of her paintings won the award.  Three paintings were submitted:

1. Three Islandic Poppies
2. Orchids & Jamine
3. Three Bottles

If you have any information about which it was, and possibly a photo of the painting, the ESB would like to have it.



3 comments:

  1. I used to work in Bord Failte from 1978-2008) which had access to the ESB canteen in their head office building in Fitzwilliam Street (now demolished and being rebuilt, even more ugly than what was there!) ESB had a nice art collection, but I can't find any listing. But I do remember there was an 'inner' dining room, from memory called the McLaughlin room where you got table service. I have a memory of a Hilda Van Stockum hanging there - from recall it was copper jugs still life.... a work colleague loved it and always tried to sit facing it, so he'd recall better, shall ask next time we meet up - unfortunately this was in the days before everyone took photos of everything!
    Letitia Pollard, Co Dublin

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    1. Letitia,
      Thank you for your contribution to the record. A giclée of one of the HvS paintings of Evie Hone will be in a new hotel being prepared in Dublin. I will post information about this when I get it and the Covid-19 pandemic is abated...
      John
      teppermarlin[at]aol.com

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