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In his biography of the artist, James White briefly touched on the artists homosexuality: "such was his religious feeling that although he was drawn to people of that type, if he once had an encounter I believe that it never occurred again." The artist's nephew, Martin Dillon, recalled that after his
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Country Shop, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. "Father, Forgive Them Their Sins" featured depicting his concerns about the new war that had broken out. Despite a growing reputation, he had to return to London in 1944 to work on demolition gangs to restore his finances. In the late 1940s and during
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and spent six weeks in hospital, from this time his work changed direction. A notion of imminent death sent his work almost into another world, a realm of dreams and paintings intimating his death. In 1968 he was back in Dublin, where he helped to design sets and costumes for Seán O'Casey's play
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uncle's death he found a diary entry describing a homosexual encounter with a sense of guilt, but the author Gerard Keenan insisted he was "a very well-adjusted homosexual". Reihill expanded on this, pointing to a probably unrequited love for the painter
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landscapes provided the viewer with context, portraits of the characters who worked the land, atmosphere and idiosyncratic colour interpretations. Aged 18, Dillon went to London, initially working as a decorator. With the outbreak of the
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retorted in a further letter, "Belfast needed creativity, it needed people like Gerard Dillon". During his last years, Dillon was invited to be involved in a children's art workshop in the
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who had organised an exhibition for the relief of victims of the
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In 1969, Dillon pulled his artworks from the
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against the "arrogance of the
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