Jack B. Yeats valuation
Ireland's great painter of the west, horses, fairs and memory, in paint laid on thick and bright.
Jack B. Yeats was born in London in 1871, the youngest son of the portrait painter John Butler Yeats and the brother of the poet W. B. Yeats, and spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in County Sligo.
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Bio
Jack B. Yeats was born in London in 1871, the youngest son of the portrait painter John Butler Yeats and the brother of the poet W. B. Yeats, and spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in County Sligo. He studied at art schools in London, among them Chiswick, and worked for years as an illustrator and cartoonist for magazines including Punch, while painting watercolours of Irish life; his first solo exhibition, Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, was in 1898. He married the artist Mary Cottenham White in 1894. He took up oil painting around 1906 and from the 1920s developed a loose, expressive style of thick, bright paint, with subjects from the west of Ireland, the circus, horses, the sea and memory. He was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1916 and died in Dublin in 1957.
His watercolours, drawings and illustrations of the early decades appear more often than the late oils. Hilary Pyle's catalogue raisonné of the oil paintings is the reference, and a work is expected to appear in it, with a provenance that can be traced.
Sligo, Punch and the National Gallery of Ireland
He drew comic strips, including a Sherlock Holmes parody, Chubb-Lock Homes, for Comic Cuts, and wrote for Punch under a pseudonym.
After the death of his wife in 1947 his late paintings took on a more visionary tone. The National Gallery of Ireland holds a large collection of his paintings and his personal archive.
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