The Hunt Museum hosts the first exhibition of work by Seán Keating in his native Limerick.
The Seán Keating In Focus exhibition brings the artist's work to Limerick city almost one hundred years after he left.
Seán Keating was an artist, teacher, writer and a broadcaster with a career spanning 70 years. His political and historical paintings and portraits are well known.
This exhibition includes many paintings never seen in public before.
The exhibition is curated by Dr Eimear O'Connor whose portrait was sketched by Seán Keating when she was a child. Eimear O'Connor recalls meeting the artist when she was very young in the early 1970s. She also remembers two interviews that Seán Keating did for television. One was for ROSC and the other was on 'The Late Late Show'.
Once he went on the television, he garnered a whole new audience and several new portrait commissions came of that.
The Hunt Museum was particularly interested in holding the first public exhibition Seán Keating's work as he grew up across the street from the museum. Director of the Hunt Museum, Virginia Teehan, says that what mkaes this exhibition special is that it returns Seán Keating to his native Limerick.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 25 June 2009. The reporter is Cathy Halloran.
