Terence P. Flanagan PRUA RHA (1929-2011)View from St. Mary's (1968)Oil on board, 75 x 106cm (29½ x 41¾'')Signed and dated (19)'68 Exhibited: T.P. Flanagan Retrospective, Ulster Museum, Belfast; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin; Fermanagh County Museum, 1995/1996 (catalogue illustration, p.28).Literature: S.B. Kennedy, T.P. Flanagan Painter of Light and Landscape, Lund Humphries, 2013; illustrated p.70 St Mary’s, the college where T.P. Flanagan taught for many years, is an unusual subject for him, but this cityscape is a reminder that Flanagan lived and painted in Belfast throughout his adult life, and also demonstrates his enduring interest in the structural arrangement of a painting. The short horizontal shapes of the buildings in the middle distance balance the verticals established by the two trees in the foreground, and the image is brought together in a spatially compressed and interrelated composition by the mirroring of the geometric shapes in the sky and the foreground.