λ Gladys Maccabe (Irish 1918-2018) At the market Oil on board Signed (lower left) 39.5 x 51cm (15½ x 20 in.) In 1941 Gladys married artist and musician Max Maccabe. The couple exhibited together throughout their relationship, most notably in Ireland at Robinson & Cleaver in Belfast in 1942 and at Kensington Art Gallery, London in 1949. The couple became members The Contemporary Ulster Group which included like minded artists such as Gerard Dillon and William Conor. In 1957 Gladys painted a portrait of Conor which is now hanging in the Ulster Folk Museum. Gladys Maccabe recognised that the talent of young female artists in Ireland was going unrecognised. In 1957 she formed the Ulster Society of Women Artists who held their first major exhibition at the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery in 1959. Gladys' work is concerned primarily with gatherings of people going about their everyday lives whether that be a moment in time captured at a market, a beach or at the races. Gladys' work is concerned primarily with gatherings of people going about their everyday lives whether that be a moment in time captured at a market, a beach or at the races.