{{Short description|Irish artist}} {{use dmy dates|date=February 2015}} {{Use British English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox artist | name = Evie Hone | image = Evie Hone by Hilda van Stockum, cropped, low-res.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Painting of Evie Hone by Hilda van Stockum | birth_name = Eva Sydney Hone | birth_date = 22 April 1894 | birth_place = Roebuck Grove House, Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland | death_date = 13 March 1955 | death_place = Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland | spouse = | field = stained glass | training = {{unbulleted list|Byam Shaw School of Art|Central School of Arts and Crafts|Westminster School of Art|André Lhote|Albert Gleizes<ref name=dnb/>}} | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = | elected = | website = | bgcolour = | signature = }} [[File:Evie Hone studio, Rathfarnham.jpg|thumb|Site of Rathfarnham workshop, Marley Park courtyard]] '''Eva Sydney Hone''' RHA (22 April 1894 – 13 March 1955), usually known as '''Evie''', was an Irish painter and stained glass artist.<ref name="dnb">Nicola Gordon Bowe (May 2009). [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33965 Hone, Eva Sydney (1894–1955)]. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', online edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/33965}} {{subscription required}}</ref> She is considered to be an early pioneer of cubism, although her best known works are stained glass. Her most notable pieces are the East Window in the Chapel at Eton College, which depicts the Crucifixion, and ''My Four Green Fields'', which is now in the Government Buildings in Dublin.
== Early life == Eva Sydney Hone, known as Evie, was born at Roebuck Grove, Donnybrook, County Dublin, on 22 April 1894. She was the youngest daughter of Joseph Hone, of the Hone family, and Eva Eleanor, ''née'' Robinson, daughter of Sir Henry Robinson and granddaughter of the 10th Viscount Valentia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/886f560890641|title=General Registrar's Office|website=IrishGenealogy.ie|access-date=22 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="dnb" /> Her mother died two days after her birth.<ref name=:2>{{cite web|url=https://www.visitstainedglass.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Evie-Hone-by-Ken-Ryan-in-Intercom-Feb-2021-v3.pdf|title=Evie Hone RHA (1894-1955) Stained Glass Artist|website=visitstainedglass.uk|access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref> She was related to artists Nathaniel Hone and Nathaniel Hone the Younger.
Shortly before her twelfth birthday<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/surprising-neglect-of-famous-stained-glass-artist-1.295515|title=Surprising neglect of famous Irish stained glass artist|date=22 July 2000|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=8 March 2018|archive-date=8 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308232911/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/surprising-neglect-of-famous-stained-glass-artist-1.295515|url-status=live}}</ref> she suffered from polio (infant paralysis), suffering a fall whilst helping to decorate the church in Taney for Easter.<ref name=":2" /> Her resulting ill health led to her seeking treatment in Harley Street. She was educated by a governess, continuing her education in Switzerland, and went on tours to Spain and Italy before moving to London in 1913.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|last=Ferriter|first=Diarmuid|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> Her three sisters all married British army officers, and all were widowed in the First World War.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bourke|first=Marie|date=1997|title=Evie Hone in Her Studio: Hilda Van Stockum's Portrait|journal=Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review|volume=86|pages=165–174}}</ref>
== Training == Hone studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London and then under Bernard Meninsky at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. She met Mainie Jellett when both were studying under Walter Sickert at the Westminster Technical Institute.<ref name=deirdre>Deirdre McMahon (2002). [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329155100/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591304198.html Hone, Evie (1894–1955)]. in: Anne Commire, Deborah Klezmer (eds.) (2002). ''Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia''. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications. Online version: Gale.{{subscription required}}</ref> She worked under André Lhote and Albert Gleizes in Paris before returning to become influential in the modern movement in Ireland and become one of the founders of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. She is considered an early pioneer of Cubism but in the 1930s turned to stained glass,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Contemporary Women Artists|last=Hillstrom|first=Kevin|publisher=St. James Press|year=1999|isbn=1558623728|editor-last=Hillstrom|editor-first=Laurie Collier|pages=[https://archive.org/details/contemporarywome00kevi/page/301 301–02]|chapter=Evie Hone|editor-last2=Hillstrom|editor-first2=Kevin|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/contemporarywome00kevi/page/301}}</ref> which she studied with Wilhelmina Geddes.
== Notable works == Her most important works are probably the East Window, depicting the Crucifixion, for the Chapel at Eton College, Windsor (1949–1952) and ''My Four Green Fields'', now located in Government Buildings, Dublin.This latter work, commissioned for the Irish Government's Pavilion, won first prize<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Dictionary of Irish Artists|last=Snoddy|first=Theo|publisher=Merlin Publishing|year=2002|isbn=1903582172|pages=263}}</ref> for stained glass in the 1939 New York World's Fair. It graced CIÉ's Head Office in O'Connell Street from 1960 to about 1983. The East Window of Eton College was commissioned following the destruction of the building after a bomb was dropped in 1940 on the school during the Second World War.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.etoncollege.com/TheChapel.aspx|title=The Chapel|date=8 March 2018|website=Eton College website|access-date=8 March 2018|archive-date=8 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308232256/https://www.etoncollege.com/TheChapel.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> The artist was commissioned to design the East Window in 1949, and the new window was inserted in 1952. This work featured on an Irish postage stamp in 1969.<ref name=":1" /> From December 2005 to June 2006, an exhibition of her work was on display at the National Gallery of Ireland. Saint Mary's church in Clonsilla also features her stained glass windows.<ref>"[https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/11353005/saint-marys-church-of-ireland-church-clonsilla-clonsilla-co-fingal Saint Mary's Church of Ireland Church, CLONSILLA, Clonsilla, Fingal] - Register number 11353005</ref>
== Personal life ==
Hone was extremely devout; she spent time in an Anglican Convent in 1925 at Truro in Cornwall<ref name=":0" /> and converted to Catholicism in 1937. This may have influenced her decision to begin working in stained glass. Initially she worked as a member of the An Túr Gloine stained glass co-operative before setting up a studio of her own in Rathfarnham.
== Works ==
* All Hallows College College Chapel south stained glass window. * The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. * The East Window - Eton College Chapel, Windsor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.etoncollege.com/eton.asp?di=549 |title=The Eton College website |access-date=6 February 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312011356/http://www.etoncollege.com/eton.asp?di=549 |archive-date=12 March 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''My Four Green Fields'' - Government Buildings, Dublin.<ref>[http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/This_window_is_entitled_My_Four_Green_Fields UCC picture and explanation of Four Green Fields] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210031944/http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/This_window_is_entitled_My_Four_Green_Fields |date=10 February 2012 }}</ref> * Frontage including arms of provinces - Dublin Bus, O'Connell Street, Dublin.<ref>[http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/oconnell_street/dublin_bus.html The Dublin Bus building from Irish-architecture.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050316150239/http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/oconnell_street/dublin_bus.html |date=16 March 2005 }}</ref> * Lanercost Priory, Cumbria.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stainedglassphotography.com/Galleries/Hone/Hone.htm |title=Photographed on Stainedglassphotography.com |access-date=6 February 2005 |archive-date=4 April 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050404063443/http://www.stainedglassphotography.com/Galleries/Hone/Hone.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> * Manresa House, Dublin<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20161213010213/http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Evie_Hone_window_in_the_Jesuit_Manresa_House_in_Dublin Evie Hone window in the Jesuit Manresa House in Dublin] from University College Cork retrieved 22 June 2013</ref> * Trinity College Dublin * East Window, St Mary's Church, Downe, Bromley, Kent. * The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery * Highlanes Gallery Drogheda, County Louth. * Catholic Church in Tullabeg, County Offaly: a series of five windows, 1946. * Church of the Immaculate Conception, Kingscourt, County Cavan. Four windows, 1947-8. * St Mura’s Parish Church, Fahan, County Donegal: Memorial window for Mrs W. A. Dickson, depicting Elizabeth of Hungary, 1949.<ref>''Londonderry Sentinel'', 10 September 1949, p. 7.</ref> * St. Peter and Paul's Church Kiltullagh, County Galway. Stations of the Cross. * Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, London. Rose window in facade and Assumption window, 1953. * St Michael's, Highgate, London. Stained glass window of The Last Supper dating from 1954. * Shirley Chapel at Ettington Park, Warwickshire.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hadfield|first=John|title=The New Shell guide to England|year=1981|publisher=M. Joseph in association with Rainbird|pages=540|isbn=9780718120276|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvOfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22evie+hone%22}}</ref> * St. John the Baptist, Blackrock, Dublin. Stained glass windows by Evie Hone in 1955. * SS Michael and John's Roman Catholic Church, Cloughjordan, County Tipperary. Two small windows to the side of the altar.<ref>{{cite web|title=Saints Micheal and John Catholic Church|url=http://www.cloughjordan.ie/rcchurch/index.htm|website=Cloughjordan|publisher=Cloughjordan Development|access-date=24 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722051319/http://www.cloughjordan.ie/rcchurch/index.htm|archive-date=22 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * Holy Family RC Church, Ardara, County Donegal. Rose window. * Mount Carmel Hospital, Churchtown, Dublin. Reception area. * Healing Grace of Christ, stained glass window, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., 1953<ref>{{Cite web |title=Celebrating Women Artists for Women's History Month |url=https://cathedral.org/blog/celebrating-women-artists-for-womens-history-month/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Washington National Cathedral |language=en}}</ref> * Works as part of the [https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/collections/ms35tg81f?locale=en Cuala Press Collection] at Library of Trinity College Dublin. <gallery mode=packed heights=220px style="text-align:left; font-size: 93%"> Loughrea St. Brendan's Cathedral West Aisle Window Saint Brigid by Evie Hone Detail 2019 09 05.jpg|St. Brigid at St. Brendan's Cathedral, Loughrea (detail) The Rose window, R. C. Ardara. - geograph.org.uk - 1111617 (cropped).jpg|Rose window, Ardara St. John The Baptist, Blackrock, inside West Stained Glass 1 (cropped).jpg|In St. John the Baptist, Blackrock (1955) Eton College Chapel - August 5, 2007 (cropped).jpg|East window, Eton College Chapel </gallery> == References == {{commonscat}} {{reflist}}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * Bruce Arnold (1977), ''Irish Art, a Concise History'' (2nd Ed.), London: Thames and Hudson, {{ISBN|0-500-20148-X}} * Nicola Gordon Bowe (2002), Hone, Evie in Brian Lalor (Ed.), ''The Encyclopedia of Ireland.'' Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. {{ISBN|0-7171-3000-2}} {{refend}}
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