Jack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) was an Irishartist who wrote and illustrated for books and magazines. Later in life he became known as a landscapist and expressionist.
Jack B. Yeats 1871-1957, The Late Paintings, A Catalogue of the Exhibition held at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, in London, and in The Hague [all during April-Sept. 1991] (1991), 111pp., chiefly colour ills., and port.
Jack B Yeats’s Cuala Press designs reprinted in 1969 reorganisation under Liam Miller; illustrated numbers of The Dublin Magazine (1923-58); his friend John Masefield arranged a commission from the Manchester Guardian for Synge and JackYeats to do a series of articles on the Congested Districts, in 1905.
Yeats seems to argue against politic fanaticism, ‘Larcson’s joke has worked; he has managed by means of his words to prevent the island losing its innocence and turning into the ruthless modern society he disliked and accused’ (Skelton, op.
No Matter, the narrator (a JackYeats self-portrait) and his sometime friend Bowsie, rambling without much purpose from one hamlet to another in a coastal region of the West of Ireland—Yeats does not say exactly where, and is obviously concerned that specificity should not destroy the representativeness of the events.
Jack Yeats’s main aim in writing the novel is to present the idiosyncrasies of individuals and place them in the context of a subtle and indirect critique of the romance genre that so captivated him.
Yeats shows us, like his brother W.B., that life is neither tragic nor comic if it is truly lived, although it may assume a predominantly tragic or comic colouring in the memory, or in the imagination, or in the retelling.
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