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Jack Butler Yeats

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Jack Butler Yeats , 1871-1957, Irish painter, son of the painter John Butler Yeats and brother of the poet William Butler Yeats . He began his career as an illustrator and produced his first oils in 1915, choosing literary subjects. His Irish seascapes and landscapes are notable for their loose, spontaneous brush work. Bibliography: See biography by B. Arnold (1998). Author not available, YEATS, JACK BUTLER. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Yeats, Jack Butler
Yeats, Jack Butler (1871–1957). The best-known...painter of the 20th century, son of John Butler Yeats (1839–1922), a barrister who...painter, and brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. Initially he worked mainly as an illustrator... Read more

Yeats, Jack Butler
Yeats, Jack Butler ( b London, 29 Aug. 1871; d Dublin...painter of the 20th century, son of John Butler Yeats (1839–1922), a barrister who...painter, and brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. Initially he worked mainly as an illustrator... Read more

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	ABOVE THE FAIR.(Irish artist John Butler Yeats) ; ...subject matter, Yeats has always appealed...them are the same. Yeats used to say that...prolific artist, Yeats did not paint most...children, leaving Jack's brother, William...his father, John Butler Yeats (1839-1922), started...to oil, and like Jack underwent a massive...his ... Read more
	Successful picture of brothers in arts; Jack Yeats. By Bruce Arnold (Yale: pounds 29.95). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds. ; ...distinguished Irish portrait painter, John Butler Yeats, and brother of the poet WB Yeats...so many Irish painters of his day, Jack Yeats managed to achieve great success...imitators of the Pre-Raphaelites. Jack Yeats wanted nothing of milksop beauties... Read more
	Politicians and Their Quoting of William Butler Yeats ; ...trend of politicians quoting William Butler Yeats. Many of them know now what they...candidates have turned to William Butler Yeats to satisfy the growing need for metaphor...making so much of his age, a poem that Yeats has, Why Should Old Men Not Be Mad...of the sort. MELISSA BLOCK: More ... Read more
	Yeats book that cost a shilling now worth 50,000 pounds at auction ; ...William Butler Yeats, and now...artist John Butler and his sons Jack and William...to Grace Butler Yeats. A Sotheby...sketches by Jack Butler Yeats, which define...Thomas Edwin Butler Yeats. A first cousin of John Butler Yeats, he ... Read more
	In search of Ireland, as Yeats knew it.(Features)(Travel)(Poet Country) ; ...reveres its storytellers. William Butler Yeats once graced the nation's [pound]20...underlie his writing. But the essence of Yeats won't be found in Dublin. The landscape...loosely forming a region now known as Yeats Country. Three miles south of Sligo...Innisfree, the subject of some of ... Read more
	Michael Yeats: in fond remembrance.(Obituary) ; ...FIRST MET MICHAEL YEATS (August 22, 1921-January...arranged for Michael Yeats to speak to the group...tower house William Butler Yeats had bought in 1917...portrait painter, John B. Yeats, the nephew of artists Jack B. Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet...of the poet William ... Read more
	Yeats painting breaks auction record ; Yeats painting breaks auction record A...Farewell To Mayo, by the Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats, was bought by an American private...ever paid at auction for a work by Yeats. Olivier bought the painting from...the work marks a turning point in Yeats's work and in the Irish artistic... Read more
	Yeats' work fetches pounds 1m.(News) ; A RACING scene painted by Jack Butler Yeats fetched more than pounds 1 million at auction in London yesterday. The Whistle of a Jacket, showing a horse being urged past the post and painted in 1946, realised the highest price at Christie's sixth annual Irish sale. Read more

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	Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives.(Brief Article)
	Irish sprezzatura: drawing widely on works from private collections, the Hunt Museum's Jack B. Yeats exhibition provides a rare comprehensive overview of Ireland's most celebrated painter.
	IRELAND'S POET : 'Such Friends: The Work of W.B. Yeats'.(New York, New York)(review of exhibition)

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