Irish lawyer, art historian, art collector and curator
For the mayor of Galway, see Thomas Bodkin (mayor).
Not to be confused with Tom Bodkin.
Professor
Thomas Bodkin
KCSG
Born
Thomas Patrick Bodkin
(1887-07-21)21 July 1887
Dublin, Ireland
Died
24 April 1961(1961-04-24) (aged 73)
Birmingham, England
Resting place
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
Nationality
Irish
Education
Belvedere College Clongowes Wood College
Alma mater
Royal University of Ireland (BCL)
Occupations
Barrister
Art historian
Curator
Known for
Director of the National Gallery of Ireland
Founding director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Spouse
Aileen Cox
(m. 1917)
Children
5
Parent(s)
Matthias McDonnell Bodkin Arabella Norman
Relatives
Matthias Bodkin (brother)
Professor Thomas Patrick BodkinKCSG (21 July 1887 – 24 April 1961) was an Irish barrister and art collector who became an art historian and curator.
Bodkin was Director of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin from 1927 to 1935 and founding Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham from 1935 until 1952, where he acquired the nucleus of the collection described by The Observer as "the last great art collection of the twentieth century."[1]
^"The Barber Institute of Fine Arts". Museums Gateway U21. Universitas 21. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
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and pneumonia. In a dramatic coincidence, another boy she loved, Michael Bodkin, died in 1900 – causing some of her friends to call her "man-killer". Joyce...
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away in the 1920s. The governor of the National Gallery of Ireland, ThomasBodkin, writing in The Studio magazine in 1921, drew attention to the decline...
Housed in a James Hicks cabinet and originally made for Clarke's patron ThomasBodkin. Acquired by the gallery in 1987. 1922 Titania Enchanting Bottom Depicts...
codicil. Altering this legal reality became the life's work of Professor ThomasBodkin. At the request of Lane's aunt, Lady Gregory, the leader of the Irish...
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Tales of Charles Perrault. illustrated by Harry Clarke, introduction by ThomasBodkin. London: George G. Harrap & Co, Ltd. Perrault, Charles (1969). Perrault's...
Lane's aunt, Augusta, Lady Gregory, and a later director of the NGI, ThomasBodkin, took up the campaign for the paintings to be returned to Ireland as...
Thomas Barnwall Martin (1784 – April 1847) was an Irish landowner and politician. Martin was the eldest surviving son of Richard Martin, humanitarian and...
artist Alfred Chester Beatty (1875–1968) Alfred Lane Beit (1903–1994) ThomasBodkin (1887–1961) Anne Crookshank (1927–2016) William Dargan (1799–1867) Desmond...
Chesterton in the Illustrated London News, and was favourably reviewed by ThomasBodkin. The stay in Battersea was brief: by spring of 1914 the Edens were living...
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