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Career
Caroline Scally first studied art at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) which is an art gallery located in Dublin, Ireland. Scally also attended to The Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, now known as; National College of Art and Design (NCAD), with good friend and fellow Irish artist, James Sleator. She won £20 at the Taylor Art Scholarships and prizes competition in 1911. Some of her works that featured in the Royal Hibernian Academy in the years 1913 and 1914 included; ‘The Palace, Versailles’, ‘On the Seine’ and ‘A Lock, Dieppe’. By the year 1958 she had exhibited forty-one pictures at the RHA. For the next 20 years of her life after 1951, she contributed over 50 pieces to the Water Colour Society of Ireland, and shortly after became a member.

In the year 1952, Scally featured her work in a yearly exhibition of Irish abstract expressionism called The Irish Exhibition of Living Art (IELA). The IELA began in 1943 and it was said that “female artists played a critical role in the formation and establishment of the IELA”. Scally displayed her art on several occasions at the Dublin Painters Gallery, she was mentioned in the Dublin Magazine art critic which stated, “so far she does not seem to have made up her mind as to either matter or manner; and a variety of styles, not all equally successful, makes it difficult to assess her work definitively. Nevertheless, a number of canvases do show her to be a painter of sensitivity. She uses a warm, rather diffuse palette. In ‘The Clothes Line’ and ‘Fruit Trees in Spring’ the effect is rich, gay and indefinably French”

In 1953 in Aberystwyth, Wales, she was represented in the Contemporary Irish Art exhibition. Although expressed as ‘dropping into archaeological lumpiness’ by the Dublin Magazine with pictures of Clonmacnoise at the 1956 IELA, she was redeemed by her ‘perky sea-gulls of Old Mills Galway, a most satisfying picture’. Over the course of Scally’s evidently successful career she exhibited with many well-known galleries all over Ireland.