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Podcast: The Arts House
Episode: WORK OF THE WEEK 47 THE FOUNDLING MARGARET CLARKE
Description: Margaret Clarke, The Foundling, c.1925, The Foundling (c.1925) by Margaret Clarke is an intriguing painting that perhaps prompts more questions than it does answers, not least in terms of representation. Depicting a white woman cradling a black baby, it is likely a study for the artist’s Bath Time at the Crèche.The larger subject painting (127 x 101 cm), which is in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, offers us further clues to this unusual subject matter – at least, unusual for 1920s Ireland – and includes eleven other children being readied for their bath by two wom...