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American sculptor and portrait painter
- Helen Huntington Hooker or Helen Hooker O'Malley Roelefs (1 January 1905 – 2 April 1993) was an American sculptor and portrait painter who spent a considerable part of her career in Ireland.
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Explore the breadth of Takis’ practice and learn about his powerful, innovative and playful works with curator Helen O’Malley. The tour offers an in-depth overview of an artist who pioneered new art forms using magnetism, light and sound.
In this online exhibition, discover Helen Hooker O'Malley's love for the landscape, history, and people of Ireland, and why she said “Ireland gave me the greatest outlet towards creative heaven". Helen Hooker O'Malley gifted over 1,200 of her photographic works to the National Library of Ireland in 1992, the year before her death.
Jul 2, 2019 · A Modern Eye, spread across two exhibitions and a book of the same title, makes up a brief introduction to the photography of Helen Hooker O’Malley. Brief and wide-ranging: the locations extend...
- Aidan Dunne
At her home on the shores of Clew Bay, the American sculptor tells Cathal O'Shannon about her art and meeting her first husband Ernie O'Malley. Opposites attract, as is evident in the case of...
Hooker, Helen O'Malley Roelefs (1905–93), sculptor, was born 1 January 1905 in Connecticut, USA, third among four daughters of Elon Huntingdon Hooker (1869–1938), chemical engineer and businessman, and his wife Blanche (1871–1956), daughter of Dexter Mason Ferry, a wealthy Detroit businessman.
Her decades-long love affair with the landscape, history and people of Ireland was ignited by her tumultuous relationship with revolutionary and author, Ernie O’Malley. Helen photographed her life in Ireland from 1935 onwards.
Cormac O’Malley and his mother, Helen Hooker O'Malley were both memory keepers in different ways. This online exhibit will highlight not only the art and work of Helen Hooker, which is housed around the world, but also the materials spanning a century of the Huntington-Hooker family, which are part of RBSCP collections.
