About Norah McGuinness
Norah Allison McGuinness (7 November 1901 – 22 November 1980) was an Irish painter and illustrator. == Early life == Norah McGuinness was born in County Londonderry. She attended life classes at Derry Technical School and, from 1921, studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art under Patrick Tuohy (1894–1930), Oswald Reeves (1870–1967), and Harry Clarke. Through Clarke, she obtained a commission to illustrate Sterne's A Sentimental Journey (London, 1926). She attended the Chelsea Polytechnic in London before spending the 1920s working in Dublin as a book illustrator and stage designer. She settled in 1925 in Wicklow and was involved in the literary and theatrical life of Dublin, designing for the Abbey and Peacock theatres and illustrating W. B. Yeats’s Stories of Red Hanrahan (London, 1927). On Mainie Jellett’s advice, she went to Paris in 1929 to study with André Lhôte and came under the influence of the École de Paris. She married the editor Geoffrey Phibbs, but they divorced in 1930 after Phibbs had left her more than once, notably for the poet Laura Riding. From there, she moved to London, where she was a member of Lucy Wertheim's 'Twenties Group' and of the avant-garde London Group. From 1937 to 1939, she lived in New York, where she exhibited her paintings, created illustrations for Harper’s Bazaar, and designed windows for Altman’s department store on Fifth Avenue.
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