Seamus Heaney

Sitterback to top

• Seamus Justin Heaney (1939-), Poet and Nobel Prize winner. Sitter associated with 23 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Ross Wilson (1958-). Artist of 14 portraits.

This portraitback to top

Made at Harvard University (where Heaney is Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory), the drawing relates to a painting commissioned by a private collector.

Linked publicationsback to top

• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 292

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• On Paper: Portraits of Writers (27 June 2012 - 3 March 2013)
• The Artist's Process (4 December 2007 - 1 June 2008)

Portrait setback to top

• Studies for 'Seamus Heaney at Harvard': drawings by Ross Wilson, 1994

Subject/Themeback to top

• Shadows