The Soul of the Belfast Landscape: The Life and Art of Frank McKelvey Frank McKelvey (1895–1974) remains a profound voice in the canon of Irish landscape painting, an artist whose brush captured not merely the topography of his homeland, but its very heartbeat. Born in Belfast to William and Mary McKelvey, his early life was steeped in the textures of visual craft; his father, a decorator and painter, likely provided the first seeds o…