Gladys Leach Set of 37 Postcard Scenes of Cork Ireland

This wonderful set of 37 Gladys Leach 'Pen and Ink' drawings is a visual depiction of many famous Cork buildings and landmarks, the set includes 31 landscape style postcards and 6 portrait style, the images were painted in 1974.  There are also 3 Victor Richardson pen and ink cards included as well. Victor Richardson was born in Belfast  in 1952 and moved to Cork in 1974 and his pen and ink drawings are similar to those of Gladys Leach.

Gladys Leach is one of Ireland’s best known artists. Now retired from producing new work, Gladys is still in good health and celebrated her 93rd birthday in March 2010. She has been drawing and painting images of her much loved city of Cork since she was a young girl. Her images are a wonderful record of many of Cork's famous and not-so-famous buildings and landscapes. One might even say they are a part of our Cork heritage. Her work has also involved Dublin, Kerry and many other parts of Ireland.

Gladys began her career making slides for the Savoy Cinema, where she worked for a time. There, she painted words to songs onto glass and they were projected onto a large screen. A man called Fred Bridgeman played the organ which rose up out of the floor and the audience would sing along.

Gladys trained in Cork's school of art and set up a graphics business on Patrick Street, where she produced artwork for businesses of all shapes and sizes. While there, she designed the world-famous "Cork Dry Gin" label. She produced Christmas cards which were very popular and were distributed worldwide. During this time, she also managed to raise seven children. Sell out exhibitions were testimony to her work and commissions were always in demand.

Her work is highly collectible and these Cork Scenes were painted in 1974 making them part of this wonderful vintage collection. Each scene is now from a by-gone era of Irish life and is still a timeless piece of art.

I can bring you this stunning collection of 37 Gladys Leach postcards + 3 Victor Richardson prints for the incredible price of €9.99 including FREE DELIVERY in Ireland and only €3.00 to the rest of the world, for a small piece of Irish heritage that is a very small price.

The 38 scenes are as follows and there are 'clickable' links to the postcards below the list.

• St Francis Church, Liberty Street
• St Mary's, Shandon and houses in Sundays Well from Fitzgeralds Park
• St Finbarre's Cathedral
  
• Savoy Cinema
• Blarney Castle
• City Hall
• Gate of the City Jail
• Cork Harbour Commissioners
• St Luke's Church
• Pattern of Old Cork
• Fr. Matthew Statue, Patrick St
• The Crawford Municipal School of Art
• Red Abbey
• Cork Docks from Montenotte
• Provincial Bank, South Mall
• GPO
• South Channel of the River Lee
• Brian Boru Bridge
• St Vincents Church Sundays Well
• Blackrock Castle
• University College Cork
• St Mary's Church, Popes Quay
• The Court House
• Griffith Bridge and Shandon Street
• South Mall
• St Patrick's Chuch, Lower Road
• Cork Municipal Water Works
• Christ Church South Main Street
• Fota House
• Sheares Street
• The Maltings
• Princes Street Market
• The Honan Chapel, UCC
• Off Barrack Street
• Main Entrance, North Cathedral
• St Finbarre's Cathedral and South Gate Bridge
• Winter's Hill
• Corner of South Terrace and Anglesea St
  

   

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