Nevill Johnson: Paint the smell of grass - Eoin O'Brien

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140 Nevill Johnson l Paint the Smell of Grass All very welcome. It is time to tell a story. To tell it as it was. John Luke, artist, lived in a brick terrace house near the Belfast docks. His father lay in the front parlour a froth of spittle on his lips. Dead he was and waiting for the box. John had managed to reach the Slade where he sat at the feet of Mr. Tonks. He lived content fine skinned chopping twigs defining his virginity with gesso and yoke of the unborn pecker and Terre Verte he built his sexless Valhallas. On my last meeting with Nevill some days before he died he looked from me standing at his bedside to the catheter draining him like an hour-glass that would alas never be inverted, and with eyes of sadness, sadness in the realization that his time had passed and mine not quite so, we parted on a quote from the Book of Samuel: “How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished.” Works consulted by all authors: Johnson Nevill, Dublin: The People’s City 1952–3, The Academy Press, Dublin. 1981 Johnson Nevill. The Other Side of Six: an autobiography. The Academy Press. Dublin. 1983. Johnson Nevill. The Wilby Diary. Unpublished. Johnson Literary Estate. Johnson Nevill. Goonstone. Unpublished. Johnson Literary Estate. Johnson Nevill. Tractatus Pudicus. Unpublished. Johnson Literary Estate. Johnson Nevill. Exhibitions catalogues and mote books. Unpublished. Johnson Literary Estate. O’Brien E. “Paint the smell of grass” Nevill Johnson (1911–1999). The Recorder. Journal of the American Irish Historical Society. 2001;14:61-70 A Personal Memoir l Eoin O’Brien 141
142 Nevill Johnson l Paint the Smell of Grass Appendices Foreword l Galway Johnson 143
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AVA GALLERY The Courtyard, Clandebo
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Self Portrait (detail) 2 Nevill Joh
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Acknowledgements THE AUTHORS would
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