Jack B. Yeats: A biography

Pyle, Hilary

Biographies & Memoirs

Andre Deutsch

Jack B. Yeats was the son of portrait painter John Butler Yeats and younger brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in Sligo, which remained a permanent source of inspiration for his painting. He studied art in London and soon earned a high reputation for pen and ink drawings in magazines. In 1910, after a period in Devon, he settled in Dublin where he devoted himself to painting in oils. Yeats was closely connected to the literary personalities of his day; John Masefield and J. M. Synge became his close friends. In the 1930s and '40s he published novels and plays which won the admiration of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. His paintings have been exhibited in many major galleries, and continue to be exhibited thirty years after his death.

Jack B.Yeats: A Biography

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Jack B. Yeats: A catalogue raisonne óf the oil paintings

Deutsch

Jack B. Yeats is probably the greatest painter Ireland has ever produced, although he is often overshadowed somewhat by his more famous brother, the poet W. B. Yeats. First published to great acclaim in 1993, this is one of very few popular books on Yeat's work. With more than 100 colour plates and 175 black and white illustrations, it is an authoritative and glorious appreciation of Yeats's vast and varied output.

The Art of Jack B. Yeats

Rosenthal, T.G.

Yeats, Jack Butler

Individual Artists

Jack B. Yeats was the son of portrait painter John Butler Yeats and younger brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in Sligo, which remained a permanent source of inspiration for his painting. He studied art in London and soon earned a high reputation for pen and ink drawings in magazines. In 1910, after a period in Devon, he settled in Dublin where he devoted himself to painting in oils. Yeats was closely connected to the literary personalities of his day; John Masefield and J. M. Synge became his close friends. In the 1930s and '40s he published novels and plays which won the admiration of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. His paintings have been exhibited in many major galleries, and continue to be exhibited thirty years after his death.

Jack B. Yeats: A Biography

Drawing

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Routledge & K.Paul

Jack B. Yeats, son of a painter and brother of the poet, is undoubtedly the outstanding Irish painter of this century. His work is collected by all the major galleries of modern art, and is currently attracting very high prices. In 1970 Hilary Pyle published an excellent biography of Yeats, and since then she has been working on the complete catalogue of his works: a lavish oils catalogue came out in 1992. Yeats is unique among Irish artists in that he spent the first twelve years of his career working solely in watercolour, bringing the technique to a perfection comparable with Turner and Cezanne, riot to choosing oil as his medium. This watercolour catalogue includes over 700 examples of his work dating from 1897 to 1910, with further examples from earlier and later periods. For each entry there is technical data (comprising tide of painting, measurements, signature if signed, dates and details of its being exhibited, etc.) with an explanatory paragraph where needed. There are numerous thumbnail reproductions for identification, and sixteen pages of colour illustrations.

Jack B. Yeats: His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels

Irish Academic Pr

Jack B. Yeats spent the first ten years of his career working as a black-and-white (pen and ink) illustrator, publishing cartoons in London journals, and illustrating books for his brother and others. This catalogue raisonne describes all the originals for Yeats's published illustrations that have been traced.

The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations

Irish Academic Press

Yeats: Portrait of an Artistic Family

Art Books Intl Ltd

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