Achill Horses – Mainie Jellett | Large Canvas Print

Achill Horses (1941) – Canvas Print by Mainie Jellett

The original has hung in the National Gallery of Ireland since 1978. This is the canvas it was painted to be seen on.

Mainie Jellett painted Achill Horses in 1941 — the last great phase of her life, and the most alive work she ever made. The horses aren't portraits. They're movement, energy, the west of Ireland distilled into colour and form. You know it's Ireland the moment you see it.

For the Irish living far from home, there's no better way to bring it back.

60×90 cm. Gallery wrapped. Arrives ready to hang.

About the Painting

Jellett came to Achill Island having just encountered Chinese art in London — and it changed what she was trying to do. Where painters like Paul Henry recorded the landscape, Jellett painted what it felt like. The horses of Achill Island weren't a subject. They were a way of capturing something harder to name: the particular energy of the Irish west, the sense that the land itself is alive.

She finished the painting three years before she died. It entered the National Gallery of Ireland collection in 1978 and has been there ever since. This canvas brings it to the scale she intended.

Canvas Specifications

• 60 × 90 cm / 24 × 36″ — gallery scale
• 300–350 gsm cotton-poly canvas with textured, painterly surface
• 4 cm gallery wrap on FSC-certified solid wood stretcher bars
• Fade-resistant, UV-safe pigment inks
• Arrives ready to hang — professional hanging hardware included
• Free worldwide shipping. No hidden fees.

About Mainie Jellett

Mainie Jellett (1897–1944) was the first painter to bring modernism to Ireland. She studied in Paris under André Lhote and Albert Gleizes, returned home to a hostile reception, and spent the rest of her life proving the critics wrong. She is now recognised as one of the defining figures in twentieth-century Irish art. The National Gallery of Ireland holds a significant collection of her work.