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Later Life and Death
In George Collie's later life he settled down and married Ann Dunne in 1925. Together they had a family of seven children, four boys and three girls. He went on to establish his own art studio and school in Schoolhouse Lane, just off Molesworth Street. He managed the school for over 30 years. In 1974 due to old age and a decline in his health George was obliged to resign his membership to the Arts Council, to which he was only assigned to of late.

Throughout his life he painted numerous well known Cardinals as well as Éamon de Valera, the president of Ireland. His work is exhibited all over Ireland, with some of it being in Dublin City Gallery, as well as the Ulster Museum, and The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland in the City Gallery Limerick.

During his career he took part in many major group exibitions in his lifetime including The Contemporary Irish Art Exhibition in Aberystwyth in 1953, and a flower painting exibition at the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, in 1957. His quantity of submissions to the Royal Hibernian Academy was impressive, from 1922 to 1975 he only missed the 1929 show. Most of the portraits shown in the Royal Hibernian Academy were not for sale, specifically from 1955 on wards, so he couldn't be relying on purchases at the exhibitions for a steady income.

He died on the 1 of July 1975  after a short illness in the Mather Hospital Dublin. He was living at 23 Oaklands Terrace,Terenure, Dublin at the time of his death. He was buried in DeansGrange Cemetery in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown on the 4th July. His wife, Ann was buried with him after she died on the 23rd of February 1997.