A new Jack Butler Yeats exhibition will open at The Model, Sligo in the coming days, celebrating the extraordinary artistic ...

From his father, John Butler Yeats, a man of original mind who had been trained in the law but turned to painting and to the pre-Raphaelite enthusiasms current in the '70s and '80s, Yeats early ...

More than forty years ago, Brian P. Burns made a bet with himself: “Isn’t it possible that the Irish could be just as brilliant in the visual arts as they have been in music and literature?” The Brian ...

The Private Collection of Mary and Alan Hobart – Pioneers of Modern British and Irish Art realised a total of £5,988,024.

Chicago Sun-Times archive Share W.B. Yeats went shopping on Michigan Avenue, where he was so taken with a wardrobe trunk that he bought it, despite having been admonished by his patroness ...

Yeats won a silver medal at the 1924 Olympics ... At this Paris Olympics in 1924, Jack entered with his painting titled the Liffey Swim. He also entered Before the Start which was an oil painting ...

She disliked Yeats's portrayal of her and tore up the ... to find her typing skills invaluable in later life to finance her painting. At 18 she moved to Hong Kong, where her father was working.

W.H. Auden, meditating on the role of the artist in a poem by W.B. Yeats, concluded that poetry "makes nothing happen." While ...