Seán Keating biography casts new light on artist's work

Sponsored by the ESB and published by the Irish Academic Press, it is an impressive volume that assesses the artist’s life and work in terms of his well-known paintings and hundreds of works of art, including drawings and sketches, that have remained in private collections for decades.
Keating has not lapsed into obscurity in the years since his death in 1977, but his artistic reputation rests mainly on paintings of War of Independence flying columns, traditional life on the Aran Islands, and the building of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme.