Jack yeats biography

Jack B. Yeats

Irish artist (–)

Jack Butler Yeats[1]RHA (29 August – 28 March ) was an Irish artist.

Jack Butler Yeats While he began using oils from about , Yeats did not regularly produce oil paintings until , preferring to work in watercolours. The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. The National Gallery of Ireland holds a significant collection of his paintings, as well as his personal archive. After South Kensington he continued his art training at the Chiswick School of Art, where he met his future wife Mary Cottenham White, the couple married in in Surrey and in settled in a coastal village named Strete in Devon.

Born into a family of impoverished Anglo-Irish landholders, his father was the painter John Butler Yeats, and his brother was the poet W. B. Yeats.[2] Jack B. was born in London but was raised in County Sligo with his maternal grandparents, before returning to London in to live with his parents. Afterwards he travelled frequently between the two countries; while in Ireland he lived mainly in Greystones, County Wicklow and in Dublin city.

Butlers' first solo exhibition "Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland" was held in He began as an illustrator and watercolourist until moving to oil paint around [3] His early pictures are lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures predominantly from the west of Ireland. His early oil paintings are heavily influenced by Romanticism, before he adopted Expressionism c.

, for which he became famous.

He died in Dublin in , aged 85 years. The National Gallery of Ireland holds a significant collection of his paintings, as well as his personal archive.[4]

Early life

Yeats was born in London, England.

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He was the youngest son of the Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats and the brother of W. B. Yeats (William Butler), who received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He grew up in Sligo with his maternal grandparents, before returning to his parents' home in London in [5] Yeats attended the Chiswick School of Art with his sisters Elizabeth and Susan,[6][7] learning "Freehand drawing in all its branches, practical Geometry and perspective, pottery and tile painting, design for decorative purposes – as in Wall-papers, Furniture, Metalwork, Stained Glass".[6]

Early in his career, Yeats worked as an illustrator for magazines like the Boy's Own Paper and Judy, drew comic strips, including the Sherlock Holmes parody "Chubb-Lock Homes" for Comic Cuts, and wrote articles for Punch under the pseudonym "W.

Bird".[5][9] In he married Mary Cottenham White, a fellow student,[10] also a native of England and two years his senior. At the Census they lived in Greystones in County Wicklow.[1]

Career

From around , he developed into an intensely Expressionist artist, moving from illustration to Symbolism.

He was sympathetic to the Irish Republican cause, but not politically active. However, he believed that 'a painter must be part of the land and of the life he paints', and his own artistic development, as a Modernist and Expressionist, helped articulate a modern Dublin of the 20th century, partly by depicting specifically Irish subjects, but also by doing so in the light of universal themes such as the loneliness of the individual, and the universality of the plight of man.

Samuel Beckett wrote that "Yeats is with the great of our time because he brings light, as only the great dare to bring light, to the issueless predicament of existence."[11] The Marxist art critic and author John Berger also paid tribute to Yeats from a very different perspective, praising the artist as a "great painter" with a "sense of the future, an awareness of the possibility of a world other than the one we know".[12]

His favourite subjects included the Irish landscape, horses, circus and travelling players.

His early paintings and drawings are distinguished by an energetic simplicity of line and colour, and his later paintings by an extremely vigorous and experimental treatment of often thickly applied paint.

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    • He frequently abandoned the brush altogether, applying paint in a variety of different ways, and was deeply interested in the expressive power of colour. Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century (and the first to sell for over £1m), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure.

    The artist closest to him in style is his friend, the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka.

    In , Yeats accepted Victor Waddington as his sole dealer and business manager. Waddington played a crucial role in building his career and reputation.[13]

    Besides painting, Yeats had a significant interest in theatre and in literature.

    He was a close friend of the playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. He designed sets for the Abbey Theatre and three of his own plays were produced there. His literary works include The Careless Flower, The Amaranthers (much admired by Beckett), Ah Well, A Romance in Perpetuity, And To You Also, and The Charmed Life.

    Yeats's paintings usually bear poetic and evocative titles. He was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in [14] He died in Dublin in , and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery.

    Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medallist at the Olympic Games in the wake of the creation of the Irish Free State.

    At the Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.[15] In the competition records the painting is simply entitled Swimming.[16][17]

    Works

    In November , one of Yeats's works, A Horseman Enters a Town at Night, painted in and previously owned by novelist Graham Greene, sold for nearly £, at a Christie's auction in London.

    A smaller work, Man in a Room Thinking, painted in , sold for £66, at the same auction. His painting Sleep Sound () was bought by David Bowie in for £45, and sold at auction in for £,[18][19]

    In the painting, The Wild Ones, sold at Sotheby's in London for over £m.[20] Whyte's Auctioneers hold the world record sale price for a Yeats painting, Reverie (), which sold for €1,, in November [21] The Model, Home of The Niland Collection, in Sligo cares for one of the best and most extensive collections of Jack B.

    Yeats's work in existence. It presents regular curated exhibitions of his work, notably, The Outside in , Enter the Clowns - The Circus as Metaphor, ; The Music has Come, ; Painted Universe, ; Salt Water Ballads,

    Hosting museums

    • The Model, Sligo
    • The Hunt Museum, Limerick
    • National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin[4]
    • Crawford Art Gallery, Cork[22]
    • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
    • Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
    • The Municipal Art Collection, Waterford
    • Ulster Museum, Belfast
    • The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame

    Notes

    1. ^ ab"Residents of a house 13 in Rathdown Lower (Greystones, Wicklow)".

      Census of Ireland Records. National Archives of Ireland.

    2. ^"Jack Butler Yeats". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 July
    3. ^Pyle,
    4. ^ ab"Jack B. Yeats (–)".

      Jack yeats biography In , Yeats accepted Victor Waddington as his sole dealer and business manager. Wicklow until , followed by 61 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin and finally, in , to 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin where they remained for the rest of their lives. Contents move to sidebar hide. In addition, Yeats published a number of plays for miniature theatre, a collection of short stories for children, and several plays and novels published throughout the s and s.

      National Gallery of Ireland. Retrieved 28 October

    5. ^ ab"History of British Comics: - (Early Comics) Part 2". Archived from the original on 9 August Retrieved 6 November
    6. ^ ab – Chiswick School of Art, Bedford Park, London, Archiseek, 26 August , accessed 11 August
    7. ^" – Chiswick School of Art, Bedford Park, London | Architecture ".

      . 26 August Retrieved 21 September

    8. ^"Portrait of Jack B. Yeats () as a Boy". National Gallery of Ireland. Retrieved 28 October
    9. ^"Jack Yeats". .
    10. ^"Jack B. Yeats (–)". National Gallery of Ireland. Retrieved 25 October
    11. ^Brennan, Séamus.

      "The Work of Jack B. Yeats".

      Modernist, Symbolist, Landscape: Following his move to Devon with Cottie in , however, Jack decided to focus on working in watercolour, holding his first exhibition of watercolours, of Devon life, at the Clifford Gallery, London in At the Census they lived in Greystones in County Wicklow. Although some critics have dismissed Jack B Yeats' artwork as irrelevant, an exhibition of his paintings at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, in , revived his reputation as perhaps the most important modern painter in the history of Irish art. Wicklow until , followed by 61 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin and finally, in , to 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin where they remained for the rest of their lives.

      Archived from the original on 7 June Retrieved 1 July Speech at the National Gallery of Ireland, 17 July

    12. ^Berger, John. Permanent Red. Methuen, repr. Writers & Artists Collective, ISBN&#;
    13. ^Clavin, Terry. "Victor Waddington". . Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 20 December
    14. ^W.

      J. Gillan & McCormack, Patrick. The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture. WileyBlackwell, ISBN&#;

    15. ^"Jack Butler Yeats | Irish painter". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 9 August
    16. ^p, McCarthy, Kevin Gold Silver And Green: The Irish Olympic Journey Cork: Cork University Press
    17. ^Mike, Cronin.

      "The State on Display: The Tailteann Art Competition". New Hibernia Review. Volume 9, Number 3, Autumn

    18. ^"Jack B Yeats painting owned by David Bowie to be auctioned". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 August
    19. ^Vallig, Marc O’Sullivan (20 October ). "Jack B Yeats: Celebrated artist, brother of WB, and Ireland's first Olympic medallist".

      Irish Examiner.

      Jack yeats prints Following his move to Devon with Cottie in , however, Jack decided to focus on working in watercolour, holding his first exhibition of watercolours, of Devon life, at the Clifford Gallery, London in Permanent Red. It was at the latter that Jack met his future wife, fellow student, Mary Cottenham White; they married in Surrey in and, in , they settled in the coastal village of Strete, Devon. Alongside his painting, Jack continued to produce a considerable amount of work for publication, including illustrations for J.

      Retrieved 10 August

    20. ^"Jack B Yeats paintings net £, at auction". BBC Northern Ireland News (12 November ). 12 November Retrieved 14 November
    21. ^"Jack Butler Yeats painting makes €m in 'white glove sale'". 29 September Retrieved 4 August
    22. ^"The AIB Collection".

      Crawford Art Gallery, Retrieved 28 October

    References

    • Samuel Beckett. Jack B. Yeats: The Late Paintings (Whitechapel Art Gallery)
    • John Booth. Jack B. Yeats: A Vision of Ireland (House of Lochar)
    • John W. Purser.

    • Modernist, Symbolist, Landscape
    • Britannica

    • The Literary Universe of Jack B. Yeats (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

    • Hilary Pyle. Jack B. Yeats in the National Gallery of Ireland (National Gallery of Ireland)
    • Hilary Pyle. Jack B. Yeats: A Biography (Carlton Books)
    • T.G. Rosenthal. The Art of Jack B. Yeats (Carlton Books)
    • Jack B.

      Yeats. Selected Writings of Jack B. Yeats (Carlton Books)

    • Declan J Foley (), ed. with an introduction by Bruce Stewart, The Only Art of Jack B. Yeats Letters and essays (Lilliput Press Dublin).

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