Booklet of 10 European Stamps

Evie Hone (1894-1955) was one of the most prominent Irish artists
of her generation and remains one of Ireland’s most highly
regarded artists to this day, whose work can be seen in major
galleries and in private collections.

Following a childhood in Dublin, Hone studied art in London and
worked in London and Paris. After spending a period in an
Anglican convent, she returned to a newly independent Ireland in
the 1920s.  Dublin, where Hone worked, was an exciting place for
artists at the time. Although Ireland was still developing, by
western European standards, artists were doing innovative work
in a wide variety of genres. Hone is considered to have been a
pioneer of Cubism in Ireland, at a time when this was an innovative 
approach to art typified by work by Pablo Picasso and other major
artists of the day.

But it is as a stained-glass artist, and as a landscape painter, that
Hone did some of her finest work, drawing on both Ireland’s rich
tradition of religious and mythological iconography, and emerging 
modernist aesthetics. In 1939, she won the first prize for stained
glass at the World Fair in New York, with her piece My Four Green
Fields, which can now be seen in Ireland’s Government Buildings.

In honour of Hone’s rich legacy and enormous contribution to art in
reland, we have issued a new stamp featuring one of her works, a
painting titled Wicklow Landscape. 

With bold lines and muted autumnal shades, it captures Hone’s
mastery of form, her love for Ireland, and her capacity to locate the
sacred in the everyday.

Product code 26DBKE