Editing Irish art (section)

==Artists==
Early Irish masters include: [[Garret Morphey]], [[Robert Carver (painter)|Robert Carver]], [[George Barrett, Sr.]], [[James Barry (painter)|James Barry]], [[Hugh Douglas Hamilton]]. The Irish impressionists included [[Roderic O'Conor]] and [[Walter Osborne]], with other landscape artists: [[Augustus Nicholas Burke]], [[Susanna Drury]], [[Paul Henry (painter)|Paul Henry]], [[Nick Miller (artist)|Nick Miller]], [[Nathaniel Hone the Younger]] and Pat Harris.

Notable Irish sculptors have included [[Jerome Connor]], [[John Henry Foley]], [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]] (born in Dublin, but emigrated to America at six months old), [[Mary Redmond]], [[John Behan (sculptor)|John Behan]] and [[Oliver Sheppard]]. [[Edward Delaney]], [[Rachel Joynt]], [[Patrick MacDowell]] and [[Rowan Gillespie]] are contemporary sculptors. [[Harry Clarke]], [[Sarah Purser]] and [[Evie Hone]] worked in stained glass.

Portraitists have included [[Daniel Maclise]], [[John Lavery]], [[William Orpen]] (both these War Artists in WWI), [[John Butler Yeats]] (father of Jack and William Butler), [[Henry Jones Thaddeus]] and [[Nathaniel Hone the Elder]].

Apart from [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]], who left Ireland as a young man, the best-known 20th-century Irish artist was [[Jack Yeats]], brother of the poet, also with an individual style that is hard to classify.  The art of [[Seán Keating]] was poised between Social Realism and Romanticism, and addressed public and political themes in an emerging nation.

Irish [[Modernism]] began with [[Mainie Jellett]], with later participants being [[The White Stag group]], The Exhibition of Living Art, [[Norah McGuinness]], [[Louis le Brocquy]], [[Patrick Scott (artist)|Patrick Scott]], [[Patrick Swift]], and [[John Kingerlee]]. [[Abstract expressionism|Abstract expressionists]] included [[Tony O'Malley]], [[Nano Reid]] and [[Patrick Collins (painter)|Patrick Collins]].<ref name="fallon">Irish Arts Review Spring 2009: "Patrick Collins: A Modern Celt", Brian Fallon {{cite web |url=http://www.irishartsreview.com/html/vol26_no1/vol26_01.htm |title=Current Issue - Irish Arts Review |access-date=2010-07-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027083620/http://www.irishartsreview.com/html/vol26_no1/vol26_01.htm |archive-date=2010-10-27 }}</ref>

In [[Northern Ireland]] notable artists have included [[John Luke (artist)|John Luke]], [[Colin Middleton]], [[William Scott (artist)|William Scott]], [[Neil Shawcross]], [[Gladys Maccabe (artist)]], [[Basil Blackshaw]] and [[Frank McKelvey]].