Life
[1937- ]; artist; b. Northern Ireland; mbr. academic staff, University
of Ulster; Crone has been strongly affected by the troubles and uses colour
as an integral feature of his response to them.
WORKS Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Paintings by David Crone at the Arts Council Gallery, Belfast April-May 1965 [exhibition catalogue] (Belfast: Arts Council 1965), 6pp.; Sean McCrum & Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Exhibition of paintings 1975-1984, at the Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, 12 January-4 February 1984 [exhibition catalogue] (Belfast: Arts Council 1984), 26pp.; S. B. Kennedy, David Crone Paintings, 1964-1991 (Dublin: Four Courts 1999), 80pp., ill.; [catalogue of exhibition at the University of Ulster]; S. B. Kennedy , David Crone Paintings, 1963-1999 (Dublin: Four Courts 1999), 72pp., ill.; [catalogue of exhibition held 26 Nov. 1999 - 5 Mar. 2000 at Ulster Museum, Belfast, includes a piece by Slavka Serakova, catalogue of exhibitions and works, bibliography and index].
Commentary
[q.a.], review of S. B. Kennedy , David Crone Paintings, 1963-1999
in Books Ireland (Feb. 2000), pp. 32-33; 'so integral is colour
to Crone's work, that we find these [monochrome reproductions], interesting
only in terms of technical analysis of tone, draughtmanship and brushwork'.
(p.33)
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