Tony O'Malley

Tony O'Malley
Born(1913-09-25)25 September 1913
Died20 January 2003(2003-01-20) (aged 89)
NationalityIrish
EducationSelf taught
Known forPainting
Awards
  • Aosdána title of Saoi
  • IMMA/Glen Dimplex Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Oireachtas Exhibition's Douglas Hyde Gold Medal
  • Guardian Art Critics Award
  • Irish-American Cultural Award
  • Honorary Doctorate of Trinity College of Dublin

Tony O'Malley (25 September 1913 – 20 January 2003) was an Irish artist known for painting. He was born in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. O'Malley was a self-taught artist, having drawn and painted for pleasure from childhood. He worked as a bank officìal until contracting tuberculosis in the 1940s. He began painting in earnest while convalescing and, though he did at first return to bank work, he continued to paint and in 1951 he began exhibiting his work.