With its title taken from the William Butler Yeats poem "To Irelandin the Coming Time," A Measured Quietude explored significantthemes and characteristics of 20th century Irish visual art. The exhibitionprovided abstract images by artists concerned with intimate explorationsof the medium of drawing. Artists in the exhibition are Maude Cotter, Roisin Lewis, Richard Gorman, William McKeown, Fergus Martin, Fionnuala Ni Chiosain, and John Kindness.

A Measured Quietude: Contemporary Irish Drawings was organizedby The Drawing Center in New York City as part of that city's IrishArts Celebration in 1999. The exhibition is supported by grants from theBritish Council, the Cultural Committee in Ireland and the Fifth FloorFoundation.

image: Fionnuala Ni Chiosain, Untitled, 1998