Homage to the significant role played by women in the history of Irish art will be paid at Adams summer loan show this year. “Irish Women Artists 1870 – 1970” will highlight the part played by women from the foundation of the Watercolour Society to the introduction of modernism and the fonding of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art from 1943. Around 100 works will be exhibited at Adams at St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin from July 7 to July 31. From August 7 to September 5 a show will run at the Ava Gallery, Clandeboye Estate in Co. Down. Works for this non selling exhibition are drawn from private collections both North and South of the border. Among those whose work will be shown are Sarah Purser, Helen Mabel Trevor, Maria Dorothy Webb, Mildred A. Butler, Rose Barton, Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone, Elizabeth Rivers, Norah Mc Guinness, Letitia Hamilton, Grace Henry, Lady Glenavy and Estella Solomons as well sculptors Hilary Heron and Gerda Fromel. Here is a small selection: