Harry Aaron Kernoff (9 January 1900 – 25 December 1974) was an Irish genre-painter. He depicted Dublin street and pub scenes and Dublin landmarks, as well as producing landscapes, woodcut illustrations, portraits, and set designs. Early life and education Harry Aaron Kernoff was born in London on 9 January 1900. His parents were Isaac and Katherine Kernoff (née Bardanelle). His father was Russian and worked as a furniture maker, and his mother was from an old Spanish-Jewish family. Kernoff served as an apprentice cabinet maker with his father, and attended a London primary school. He showed an early interest in art. The family moved to Dublin in May 1914, and Kernoff enrolled for night classes at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. In 1923, Kernoff won the Taylor scholarship and became a full-time day student. Career Kernoff was influenced by Seán Keating, Patrick Tuohy, and Maurice MacGonigal. He painted the Irish landscape, genre scenes, and portraits. He was particularly interested in drawing streetscapes, buildings and people of Dublin. He is noted for his awareness of the effect of unemployment in Dublin which he documented in paintings such as Dublin kitchen (1923). From 1926, he exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy, continuing to do so until his death and being elected a member in 1936. His studio was based at Stamer Street, Dublin, from where he painted portraits of leading literary and theatre figures, including Brendan Behan, Hilton Edwards, F. R. Higgins, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Sean O'Casey, and W. B. Yeats. Kernoff preferred to finish his portraits in a single sitting, and was a prolific painter. From 1926 to 1958, he held an annual solo show in Dublin. Kernoff was a member of the Studio Art Club and the Radical Club. Kernoff executed the decorative design of the Little Theatre in South William Street, Dublin. He was the set designer for Sean O'Casey's The shadow of a gunman and Lord Dunsany's The glittering gate. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Kernoff was a member of the Friends of Soviet Russia, with his woodcuts used to illustrate labour and republican newspapers throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He also designed the masthead of The Irish Workers' Voice. In 1930, Kernoff visited Leningrad and Moscow with the Friends of Soviet Russia. He was actively involved in anti-fascist campaigns in Dublin. Kernoff visited