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Thomas Ryan PPRHA
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Pink Rose - Oil on Canvas Board As artist, designer, medallist,
member of various prestigious national and international bodies in his areas of
expertise, Thomas Ryan has made an enormous contribution to the well-being of
the nation. He is one of our leading
portrait painters: Presidents, Cardinals and University Chancellors; Taoisigh;
Archbishops, Provosts and University Presidents, including our own, and the
Planning Board of this institution have been captured for all time by his dispassionate
eye and steady hand. His landscapes and
townscapes have mirrored the changing face of modern Ireland:
among these his paintings of his native Limerick
have their own important niche.
Very early in the life of this
University he was called upon to exercise another of his talents; to design the
Chairman's Gold Medal, awarded at each annual Conferring to the outstanding
graduating student of the year. He
produced a very beautiful design based on one of the misericords
from St Mary's Cathedral. Equally fine
was his 1989 design for the University
of Limerick Mace, its crenellated head climaxed by the figure of St. Munchin, patron of learning and of his native city. He has also designed the Fifty Pence coin
issued to commemorate the Dublin Millenium and the
current One Pound coin. Less known to
the general public is his reputation as an expert on medals, particularly Irish
medals issued over the centuries by various official and semi-official bodies.
But apart from his work as a
full-time practising artist, he has given freely of his knowledge and
experience to many bodies here in Ireland and in Europe. Abroad he is a member of governing bodies of
academies and cultural institutions in England,
Scotland, Italy and Spain. These include the Royal Academies in London and Edinburgh, the
Union of European Academies, Madrid and the British
School at Rome.
To focus on just one of the Irish institutions which has benefited
greatly from his advice, the National Self-Portrait Collection is deeply
indebted to Thomas Ryan for the robust and commonsense policies for its
development which he advocated when it was still in swaddling clothes.
But his greatest contribution to an
Irish institution is undoubtedly that made to the Royal Hibernian
Academy. An Associate from 1963 and a full Academician
from 1971, Thomas Ryan was elected President of the RHA in 1982 at a most
difficult period in its history. The
construction of a new Gallery had begun in 1972 through the generosity of
Matthew Gallagher. However his death and
the difficult economic climate in 1973 brought to a halt the building of the RHA's new home. But
in 1984, two years into Thomas Ryan's presidency, the RHA was able to hold its
first exhibition, that of the GPA Awards for Emerging Artists, in its own
Gallery. The following year, on 19 June
1985, the President of the RHA had the great joy of hosting the Opening of the RHA's 156th Annual Exhibition in its new home,
the first time that this event was held in its own building since the burning
of the Academy's premises in Abbey Street in 1916 - with all of that year's
Annual Exhibition inside. A bare recital
of the facts which saw the creation of the RHA Gallery as it is today cannot
indicate the enormous amount of painstaking work, diplomacy, fund-raising
skills and unremitting attention to a myriad range of detail that all of this
entailed. Like the work of Thomas Ryan
in all his avocations, this achievement required constant thought, thorough
examination of the possible and confident completion within the limits set.
And borrowing a line from Sir
Christopher Wren, Thomas Ryan could (though he is much too modest and private a
man to do so) stand at the top of the splendid staircase of the RHA Gallery,
look around him at the best art exhibition space in Ireland and say, sotto
voice "si monumentum requiris."
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA Pink Rose with Wedding RingsOil on Board, Framed15cm x 20cm (6" x 8") |
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€2,200.00 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA Pink RoseOil on Board, Framed15cm x 20cm (6" x 8") |
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€2,200.00 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA Pink RoseOil on Board, Framed17cm x 22cm (6.5" x 8.5") |
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€1,900.00 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA Peach RoseOil on Board, Framed15cm x 22cm (6" x 9") |
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€1,900.00 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA Service RoseOil on Board, Framed15cm x 20cm (6" x 8") |
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€1,900.00 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA Mary and Denis RosesOil on Board, Framed15cm x 20cm (6" x 8") |
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€1,900.00 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA The EngagementOil on Board, Framed22cm x 17cm (9" x 7") |
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€2,900.00 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA The WeddingOil on Board, Framed22cm x 17cm (9" x 7") |
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€2,900.00 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA Lambay IslandWatercolour on Paper, Framed36cm x 49cm (14" X 19") |
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€3,900.00 |
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Thomas Ryan Kings Inn, DublinWatercolour on Paper, Framed36cm x 42cm |
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€5,500.00 |
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Thomas Ryan Muckish MountainOil on Board, Framed61cm x 50cm |
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€6,500.00 |
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA Reclining NudePastel on Paper, Framed25cm x 36cm (10" x 14") |
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€2,900.00 |
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Thomas Ryan The Twelve BensOil on Board, Framed20cm x 28cm |
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€2,900.00 |
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