Paris in 1931, where he exhibited Metro, Paris, and Place de Tertre. In the same year he had a one-man show at Gieve's Gallery, London, exhibiting Ukraine peasant. He was one of the illustrators of the Cuala Press A Broadside second and third series in 1935 and 1937. He developed an interest in modernism and the avant-garde movement in the 1920s, but returned to realism for his works documenting social life in both rural and urban Irish settings. He frequented the Palace Bar on Fleet Street, and would trawl Dublin pubs looking for more portrait subjects. Kernoff exhibited at two world fairs, Glasgow in 1938, and New York in 1939. From the 1940s onwards, Kernoff favoured small canvases, painting miniature oils in the hundreds. He published his first book of woodcuts in 1942, followed up with A storyteller's childhood in 1946. He was among the Irish artists featured at the contemporary Irish art exhibition at Aberystwyth, Wales in 1953. Kernoff travelled to Nova Scotia in 1957, spending a year painting there. He exhibited watercolours in Lugano, Italy, and Toronto, Canada in 1964 and 1965. Four of his portraits of W. B. Yeats were exhibited as part of the National Gallery of Ireland Yeats centenary exhibition in 1965. He sat on the arts advisory committee of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art for a number of years. He was elected a life member of United Arts Club, Dublin in 1974. Death and legacy Kernoff died on 25 December 1974 in Meath Hospital, Dublin. The National Library of Ireland hold his papers which were deposited by his sister, Lena Kernoff, in 1975. Kernoff's work has been stylistically compared with L. S. Lowry, with John Ryan describing him as "our Boswell in paint". It has been suggested that Kernoff's painting, A Bird Never Flew on One Wing, was the inspiration for the ears of the character Spock in the original Star Trek television series. The painting hung in O'Brien's pub, Leeson Street, where it is believed a Hollywood designer saw it, though this story may be apocryphal. The painting sold in 2008 for €180,000. References External links Kernoff Bio at Whytes Kernoff at ArtNet 1900 births 1974 deaths Anglo-Irish artists 20th-century Irish painters Irish male painters Irish Jews Irish people of Russian-Jewish descent Woodcut designers 20th-century British printmakers People from Portobello, Dublin Olympic competitors in art competitions 20th-century Irish male artists