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    • AN ACQUISITION OF JAMES BARRY PRINTS

    James Barry (Irish, 1741–1806), The Phoenix or The Resurrection of Freedom,

    James Barry (Irish, 1741–1806), The Phoenix or The Resurrection of Freedom,

    A total of 28 prints by the Irish artist James Barry has been acquired by the Snite Museum at the University of Notre Dame near  South Bend, Indiana. The acquisition will enhance the university’s position as a centre for Irish 18th century, art historical and transatlantic studies.

    The collection was built over four decades by William and Nancy Pressly.  William Pressly is Professor Emeritus of 18th and 19th century  European art at the University of Maryland. Born in Cork James Barry (1741-1806) produced over 40 prints during his career. He was an activist artist whose historical, mythological and biblical subjects were thinly veiled critiques of the British government.  He became a professor at the Royal Academy but was eventually expelled.

    Included in the portfolio are King Lear and Cordelia, The Temptation of Adam from Milton’s Paradise Lost, two different states of the Birth of Venus, a unique impression of Blessed Exegesis, and the monumental Resurrection of Freedom, celebrating the birth of a new democratic republic in North America. Chief among the cache is Lear (1803), which was included in the first portfolio of artists’ lithographs published in England.

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