Nano Reid
Nano Reid (1900-1981)
Born in Drogheda, Co. Louth, Anne Margaret (Nano) Reid's artistic career began with her winning a scholarship in 1920 to the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Here she trained to be an art teacher, studying under Harry Clarke - an influence she later cited as 'forceful'. She first exhibited at the RHA in 1925 and continued to do so periodically until 1968, showing forty-two works in all. She travelled and studied art in Paris and London between 1928-1930. Upon returning to Dublin she was associated with the Dublin Painters and held her first solo show with them on St Stephen's Green in 1934. She exhibited at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin several times, had solo shows at the Victor Waddington Galleries in Dublin and St George's Gallery in London, and was included in major survey shows of Irish art. In 1950 Reid - along with Norah McGuinness - represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. Several retrospectives of her work have been held, including one by the Arts Council in Belfast and Dublin in 1974 and another by the Taylor Galleries, Dublin, in 1991.
Born in Drogheda, Co. Louth, Anne Margaret (Nano) Reid's artistic career began with her winning a scholarship in 1920 to the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Here she trained to be an art teacher, studying under Harry Clarke - an influence she later cited as 'forceful'. She first exhibited at the RHA in 1925 and continued to do so periodically until 1968, showing forty-two works in all. She travelled and studied art in Paris and London between 1928-1930. Upon returning to Dublin she was associated with the Dublin Painters and held her first solo show with them on St Stephen's Green in 1934. She exhibited at the Dawson Gallery in Dublin several times, had solo shows at the Victor Waddington Galleries in Dublin and St George's Gallery in London, and was included in major survey shows of Irish art. In 1950 Reid - along with Norah McGuinness - represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. Several retrospectives of her work have been held, including one by the Arts Council in Belfast and Dublin in 1974 and another by the Taylor Galleries, Dublin, in 1991.