Patrick Pye
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Template:Use dmy dates Patrick Pye RHA (1929 – 8 February 2018) was a sculptor, painter and stained glass artist, resident in County Dublin.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Pye was born in Winchester, England. He died in Dublin, Ireland.
Career
Major commissions can be seen across Ireland. In 1999 a retrospective of his work was exhibited by the Royal Hibernian Academy. He is a founding member of Aosdána.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He has been described as "the most important creative artist in the sphere of religious thought in Ireland in our time".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
The poet Michael Longley described the way Pye was treated in the last year of his life as "crass, unforgivably crass".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
References
External links
- Patrick Pye's website
- Biographical note at Aosdána
- McAvera B. "Patrick Pye, Life and Work" Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2013.
- Fitzsimons R.B. "Arthur O'Leary and Arthur Sullivan, Musical Journeys from Kerry to the heart of Victorian England". Doghouse, Tralee, 2008
Categories:
- 1929 births
- 2018 deaths
- Aosdána members
- British male painters
- British male sculptors
- British stained glass artists and manufacturers
- Artists from Dublin (city)
- 20th-century British painters
- 20th-century British sculptors
- 21st-century British painters
- 20th-century British male artists
- 21st-century British male artists