Listed Irish Artist Cecil Maguire Horse Racing Dublin

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Entitled "At the Start", dated 1979, SLR, 8 1/2" x 12. Address on verso is 9 Sharman Dr., Belfast. Beautiful condition and ready to hang on your wall. Cecil Maguire was born in 1930 in Lurgan, Co. Armagh and graduated from The Queen's University, Belfast in 1951. In 1967 he was made on Associate of the Royal Ulster Academy and in 1971 began to exhibit at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. In 1974 he became an Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy.In 1981 he resigned his post as Senior English Master at Lurgan College in order to paint and travel full - timeHe now lives and works for a larger part of the year in the West of Ireland in Roundstone, Connemara where he feels very much at home in an area which has always been the inspiration for much of his work - an area of tranquillity and ever changing landscape.Over the years, Cecil Maguire's work has been shown in many one - person and group exhibitions. Few important private Irish collections are without at least one example of his work.In 1993 he was a Gold medal Award winner at the Royal Ulster Academy