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AN OIL ON CANVAS, "IRISH LANDSCAPE" BY JACK B. YEATS

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AN OIL ON CANVAS,  IRISH LANDSCAPE  BY JACK B. YEATS

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Auction Date:2008 Dec 10 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:128 The American Road, Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States
<b>AN OIL ON CANVAS, "IRISH LANDSCAPE" BY JACK B. YEATS</b>
(Jack Butler Yeats, Irish, 1871-1957). Unframed, signed by the artist l.l.c., verso with the remnants of an old exhibition tag giving title and artist information. A painter, writer and graphic artist, Jack was the younger brother of famed poet W. B. Yeats. He spent much of his boyhood in County Sligo and maintained that its landscape and light were what inspired him to become a painter. He sporadically attended various art schools, including the Westminster School of Art, and worked as a black-and-white illustrator, chiefly for magazines. He was over 30 before he began to work regularly in oils; for years his style remained essentially conservative, but in the mid-1920s his forms, as seen in this landscape, were defined by brush strokes rather than by line, his colors grew richer and more luminous and his earlier realism gradually gave way to a highly personal Impressionism. Sight size 12"h x 15 1/2"w Losses to the corners where the piece was once pinned.