Life
1894-1930; b. 15 N. Frederick St., Dublin; portrait, narrative, and genre painter; ed. CBS and St Enda’s, a first pupil; taught at Metropolitan by Orpen on encouragement of William Pearse, sculptor and school art master [and f. of Patrick Pearse] with whom he studied in 1908; Taylor School, 1912, 1915; 10 ceiling paintings for Jesuit community at Rathfarnham Castle; ceiling for La Scala Theatre, later Capitol Cinema; GPO in 1916; taught in Madrid for 18 months; taught in metropolitan on return in 1918;
exhibited “A Mayo Peasant Boy” at the RHA [painted in 1912, now in Municipal], sent to Paris exhibition of Irish Art, 1922; elected ARHA, 1926, and subsequently RHA; ill. books of Standish James O’Grady, landscapes, and portraits of James Stephens, Lord Fingall [Plunkett], James Joyce"s father Stanislaus John Joyce and Joyce himself - both at Joyce"s own commission; spent long periods in Paris; moved to Columbia, South Caroline, 1927; settled in New York, where he committed suicide by gas, being found only two weeks later; his works are represented in NGI and Municipal GMA. DIB BREF
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Works
Portraits: Padraic Colum (1924), pencil and crayon; O’Casey (1926), Ria Mooney (1922), both pencil on paper; John Stanislaus Joyce (1923-24), James Joyce (1924) [Buffalo NY], both oil.
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CriticismPatrick J. Murphy, Patrick Tuohy from Conversations with His Friends (Dublin: TownHouse 2004), 206pp.
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Commentary
Arthur Power, Conversations with James Joyce ( London: Millington 1974), pp.104-05: Power describes account of Tuohy’s nervous mania - he believed a rotten tooth was poisoning his brain - as well as his jealousy demeanour towards Joyce who invited him to Paris to paint his family after the success of his portrait of his father. Power gives a second-hand account of Touhy’s time in Georgia where his behaviour towards young women had the effect that ‘no Irishman need come down here for fifty years’, according to his hostess; finally, he recounts his suicide in New York, on hearing of which Joyce said: ‘I’m not surprised. He nearly made me commit suicide too.’
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An Album of Portraits by Patrcik Tuohy
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| Coastal Landscape | James Augustine Joyce | The Cockle-pickers (W. Ireland) |
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| Young Girl in an Interior | The Rehearsal | John Stanislaus Joyce |
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| S. J. O’Grady, Coming of Cuchulain (1894) | Self-portrait in His Studio with Two Ladies | |