a house with her friend Patricia Hutchins. After WWII, Nano Reid moved to Fitzwilliam Square, sharing with others, including Pearse Hutchinson. In 1950, Nano Reid and Norah McGuinness were selected to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale of Art. This was the first time Irish artists participated in this international exhibition, which has been supported by the government of Ireland since then through a range of departments and agencies responsible for foreign affairs, arts and culture. The Arts Council of Northern Ireland's Chichester Street Gallery, Belfast was the venue for a collection of forty solo works in the summer of 1964. She had previously shown in Belfast as a guest of the Ulster Society of Women Artists and with the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. Drogheda, the home town of Nano Reid, has not honored her by naming a street, a bridge, or a gallery in her memory. Work in collections Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin Trinity College Dublin The Arts Council of Ireland including Cave of the Firbola Wreckage No.1 Santa Barbara Museum California Irish Institute, New York University of Limerick, IACI O'Malley Collection (1) Donkeys on the Aran Shore, (2) Valley Desmond, Gaugan Barra Quotes A born artist and a born stylist...This young artist from Drogheda has to be saluted as a genius. Thomas MacGreevy, The Irish Times, 27 November 1942, p. 3 link One can say, without pretension, that she has her place in European painting. Patrick Swift, Envoy, March 1950 (read article). Reid painted Swift's portrait that year. For my money the best Irish painter, mo cheol thú, a Nano. Pearse Hutchinson, The Irish Imagination 1959–1971 (1971) References References and further reading Karen Reihill "Gerard Dillon, Art and Friendships" pdf http://www.adams.ie/cat-pdf/20713.pdf "Irish Art from Nathaniel Hone to Nano Reid: The Drogheda Municipal Art Collection in Context". Dr Denise Ferran. Highlanes Gallery (Drogheda). 2006 Declan Mallon (1994), Nano Reid. Drogheda, Co. Louth: Sunnyside Publications. Patrick Swift, Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art, March 1950 read article Karen Reihill "Gerard Dillon,Art and Friendships" published by Adams Auctioneers ( www.adams.ie ) Summer Loan Exhibition 2013 http://www.adams.ie/cat-pdf/20713.pdf External links Nano Reid images on Artnet 1900 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Irish painters Irish women painters People from Drogheda Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière Alumni of the National College of Art and Design 20th-century Irish women artists