Evie Hone

Evie Hone (Born Dublin 1894, died 1955) was an Irish painter and stain glass artist.

Her most important work is probably the window for Eton College, Windsor (1949-1952) while her My Four Green Fields, four small stain glass panels on the front of the Dublin Bus office on Dublin's O'Connell street, though modest, are well-known to Dubliners.

Like her companion Mainie Jellett, Evie Hone studied under Walter Sickert at the Westminster Technical Institute in London and worked under André Lhote and Albert Gleizes in Paris before returning to become influential in the modern movement in Ireland, she was, for example, a founder of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art.

Evie Hone was extremely devote, she spent time in an Anglican Convent in 1925 and converted to Catholism in 1937. This may have influenced her in descision to begin working in stained glass. Initially she worked as a member of the stained glass co-operative An Túr Gloine before setting up a studio of her own in Rathfarnham.

Work in collections or on display

• The East Window Eton College, Windsor.
  • The Eton College website
• My Four Green Fields (Dublin Bus, O'Connell Street)
  • The Dublin Bus building from Irish-architecture.com
• Lanercost Priory, Cumbria
  • Photographed on Stainedglassphotography.com
• Trinity College Dublin
• The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery

References and external links

• Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco) biographical note
• Nicola Gordon Bowe (2002), Hone, Evie in Brian Lalor (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillian. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2
• Bruce Arnold (1977), Irish Art, a Concise History (2nd Ed.), London: Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0-500-20148-X