Charles Brady was born in New York, America, in 1926. Following time spent in the US Navy aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, studying at the Art Students’ League and working as a guard in the New York Metropolitan Museum, Brady moved to Ireland in 1955. Settling in Dun Laoghaire with his wife Eelagh in 1962, Brady resisted the tendency towards abstraction that was popular on both sides of the Atlantic throughout much of his career. Instead he painted small-scale figurative works that returned again and again to the same simple subject matter - white tennis shoes, hats, bus tickets, envelopes, wallets and cottages. Charles Brady won the Douglas Hyde Gold Medal at the 1973 Oireachtas Exhibition, the PJ Carroll Award at the Living Art Exhibition 1978, the Landscape Award at the 1975 Oireachtas and the Keating/McLoughlin Medal awarded by the ESB at the 1996 RHA Annual Exhibition. He was one of the founding members of the Independent Artists and their annual group shows that took place from 1960 onwards. In 1994 Brady was elected as an Honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and he was also a member of Aosdána. His work has been exhibited widely in both his native America and Ireland, with solo exhibitions in the Urban and Babcock Galleries in New York; Davis Gallery, Dublin; and Grant Fine Arts, Belfast. The RHA held a major posthumous retrospective of his work in 2002 and his work is included in the public collections of Bank of Ireland, the Ulster Museum, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, AIB, the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Students League, New York. Charles Brady died in 1997.
Exhibitions with Taylor Galleries:1995 Paintings 1994-1995
1993 Recent Work
1992 Inside & Outside - New Works
1991 A Selection of Recent Work
1990 Charles Brady 1989
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1981 Charles Brady
1979 Charles Brady