In the frame: Through the city to the sea for exhibition inspired by the Lee

Marc O'Sullivan Vallig hears about the latest collection of Cork paintings in the Crawford Art Gallery

George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson's 'Paddle Steamer Entering the Port of Cork', 1842. Collection Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

The River Lee rises in the Shehy Mountains above Gougane Barra and snakes 56 miles through Co Cork on its journey to the sea. Over the past few centuries, the Lee has inspired countless artists, a broad selection of whose work can now be seen in a new exhibition, From Source to Sea, at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork.

From Source to Sea is curated by Dr Michael Waldron, Curator of Collections and Special Projects at the Crawford, and was, he explains, partly inspired by the gallery’s recent acquisition of a painting by the Limerick artist Donald Teskey.