Caroline Scally

Caroline Scally (29 October 1886 – 26 September 1973), was an Irish landscape artist.

Early life and education

Caroline Scally was born Caroline Stein on 29 October 1886 at 7 Corrig Avenue in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin. Her parents were Robert Francis and Mary Josephine Stein. In 1911 Caroline won the Taylor art scholarships and prize competitions. She used the prize money to travel across Europe. Her career was hindered at the time by family and domestic life, and her exhibitions grew less regular. After spending many years in Northern Ireland, Scally returned to, living Dublin at number 81 Leeson Street Upper.

According to the Evening Herald, she was one of the best contemporary painters, with her style was also described as "mannered, with a pleasing dryish colour sense and a sense of humour". In 1952 Evening Herald described Scally as a painter of power originality and the spurning of nature. Scally's constant movement throughout her early life and thereafter is reflected in the names of her paintings such as 'Achill Graveyard'.

Legacy Her paintings remain displayed in the National Gallery of Ireland such as "The Canal Lock House". Several of Scally's works have disappeared in past years with her son, Sean Scally, was attempting to track down the whereabouts of her paintings in order to carry on her legacy and preserve her work in 1995.

Featured exhibitions A Celebration of Irish Art and Modernism' (2011) 'Ireland: Her People and Landscape' (2012) 'Irish Women Artists: 1870-1970' exhibition (2014)