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In 1949 MacCann and his wife moved into a flat at 23 Botanic Avenue which became known as a gathering place for artists, poets and writers on the
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amongst others, which had evolved from the short-lived Ulster
Society of Painters. The group exhibited on just one occasion, at Locksley Hall, Belfast in December 1934. Middleton and MacCann commanded their own section where they displayed the most abstract paintings on show.
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George Galway MacCann died on 4 November 1967 aged 58. He had no children but was survived by his wife Mercy. As his funeral cortege passed down
Botanic Avenue shops and businesses closed, and people lined the street to pay their respects.
97:(14 February 1909 – 4 November 1967) was a Northern Irish abstract painter and Modernist sculptor, writer and broadcaster. MacCann was born in Belfast, the son of monumental sculptor David and his wife Elizabeth.
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design group, which was held in a bombed out building on the corner of
Fountain Street and Castle Street in Belfast, and which also formed part of the Festival of Britain. Other exhibitors included
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Belfast, and costumes for the Patricia Mulholland Irish Ballet, as well as murals in many pubs and restaurants. In 1961 his murals adorned the walls at the newly opened Spinnaker Restaurant in
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under Seamus Stoupe for three years thereafter. Upon concluding his studies at
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The critics were still talking of the 1934 exhibition when the artists were re-united for an exhibition in aid of the Youth Hostel
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whom he had met at
Belfast School of Art. From 1937 until the outbreak of WW2 he lectured in sculpture at Belfast School of Art. In 1939 MacCann joined the
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saints in the dining room. Both murals were lost after a car-bombing in 1972.
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