Cork's Crawford Art Gallery has 'thrilling moment' as it adds four new paintings to national collection

Mary McCarthy, director of the Crawford Art Gallery, at the unveiling of four new artworks acquired by the gallery for the national collection.

It may be closed for significant renovations, but the work in the background goes on at Crawford Art Gallery as it hailed a “fantastic coup” of four new works for its growing national collection.

The Cork gallery said on Thursday it had acquired two more works by one of Ireland’s foremost early 20th-century painters, Seán Keating.