Jack B. Yeats: A Biography

by Hilary Pyle

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0389208922
• ISBN13: 9780389208921
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages