Just five days ago, I made a cheeky call to the National Gallery of Ireland to include Una Watters’ Girl Going by Trinity in the Rain in one of its future annual calendars. Hey presto, no sooner wished for than granted! The NGI, it seems, was way ahead of me!
The 2024 calendar has just gone on sale in the gallery shop and my spies in Dublin tell me Una’s Trinity Miss holds the February slot. Other new NGI acquisitions share the pages of the calendar – a minor French fellow by the name of Paul Cezanne, for one, along with old gallery favourites such as John Singer Sargent, Paul Signac, William John Leech, Mildred Anne Butler, John Lavery and Mary Swanzy.
Aren’t they in good company!
The inclusion of Una’s work in the calendar is a real vote of confidence in her work. For us here at the blog, it means that Girl Going by Trinity in the Rain will be restored to our walls. It’s almost 11 months since the men from the gallery came to take the original away.
It’ll be like old times seeing Trinity Girl on a daily basis.
The February page might well be open all year!
Paul Cézanne, La Vie des Champs, 1876-77, which features on the cover of the calendar. Photograph: National Gallery of Ireland
Una Watters (1918-1965) 