A summer harvest of Irish paintings

Called Potato Gathering, this oil by Walter Osborne was included in the National Gallery of Ireland's retrospective on the artist…

Called Potato Gathering, this oil by Walter Osborne was included in the National Gallery of Ireland's retrospective on the artist in 1983, and it is now on view at Dublin's Frederick Gallery as part of a summer exhibition of Irish art.

Another work in the same show, a portrait of a Breton fisherman by Aloysius O'Kelly, has been requested for the latter's retrospective, due to be held in the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art at the end of next year, and before then for the exhibition Irish Painters in Brittany, scheduled for Pont Aven in 12 months' time.

And yet another picture from the Frederick Gallery will be seen in a retrospective - Derek Hill's Hunting in Limerick. One of only two pictures on this theme by the artist, it is to be shown in early September in an exhibition dedicated to Hill at the RHA Gallagher Gallery; later in the autumn, he will be presented with the Academy's Gold Medal for his contribution to Irish art.

Other artists included in the Frederick Gallery's show include Sir William Orpen, Dermod O'Brien, Nathaniel Hone, May Guinness, Grace Henry and Gerard Dillon. The exhibition continues until next Friday.