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Maurice Canning Wilks

Maurice Canning Wilks (1910 - 1984) was active/lived in United Kingdom, Ireland.  Maurice Wilks is known for Landscape, portraits, genre-paintings, drawings in pen and ink, pencil and chalk..

Maurice Wilks RUA, ARHA (1910-1984)

The Irish landscape painter Maurice Wilks was born in Belfast in 1910.  He attended evening classes in drawing and painting at the Belfast School of Art, and managed to become a day pupil by winning the Dunville scholarship.  An exhibitor with the newly formed Ulster Academy of Arts*, he was duly elected an associate member in 1935.  During the next half century (1933-83), Wilks showed 35 works at the Royal Hibernian Academy* (RHA) in Dublin, most of them landscape paintings.  During his early career, one of his mentors was the landscape artist James Humbert Craig.  In 1946 Wilks exhibited several times at the Victor Waddington Galleries in Dublin.

Wilks' landscapes were mainly of Donegal, Antrim, Kerry and Connemara, although later he painted several highly sympathetic Dutch landscapes.  Critics remained divided about his artistry.  Some considered his work more populist and sentimental drawing room i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3791 characters.]  Artist bio

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