William Conor
, Irish, 1881-1968
Title
Girl with BucketsDate1950's
MediumWax crayon on paper
Dimensions
35 x 26 cm
Signedcentre left: Conor
Credit LinePresented, in memory of Marie McGuone, 2012
Object numberNGI.2012.5
DescriptionThis is a typical example of Conor's images of the people of Northern Ireland. It is drawn using wax crayon, a difficult medium he made his own. Although his working technique is not documented, it is likely that he used photography. The face of his figures, created using contrasting light and dark areas, remind one of old newspaper photographs. Here, a woman squints into the sun which bleaches out details leaving just a faint impression of the farm buildings in the background. Conor may have created this drawing using an offset image as it is very similar (and in reverse) to a drawing entitled 'The Water Carrier' exhibited at the Oriel Gallery, Dublin in 1981.