Frances Kelly
Frances Kelly (born Frances Josephine Kelly; 1908 - 2002, usually known as Judy Boland, was an Irish painter. She is known for being the wife of Frederick Boland, an Irish diplomat who served as the United Nations representative for Ireland; by the age of twenty seven, when she married, she had attained prominence as a painter.Early life
Kelly was born in 1908 in Coolagh Bridge, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. She studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, Ireland, and, from 1932–1935, in Paris, France with the cubist painter Léopold Survage.Artistic career
In Ireland, she painted the murals in Tullamore Hospital, Dublin, and those at the old Russell Hotel. Kelly specialized in still life works. In 1935, she married Irish diplomat Frederick Boland. They had a son, Fergal, and four daughters (Jane, Nessa, Mella, and the poet Eavan Boland.Paintings
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