Lissadell House and Gardens, Sligo, Ireland
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Jack B. Yeats
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"No one creates. The artist assembles memories." So said Jack Yeats and his most passionate memories are of his childhood in the Sligo: My river is how he describes his vigorous and brilliantly coloured painting of Drumcliff River framed by Ben Bulben, first exhibited in 1951.
"It is a part of the misfortune of Ireland that nearly all the characteristics which give colour and attractiveness to Irish life are bound up with a social condition that is near to penury," wrote playwright John Millington Synge, reporting on his travels in the West of Ireland with compatriot Jack Yeats in 1905. The pair were writing for the English newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. Synge's reports, accompanied by Jack's ink drawings, were published in this paper in June and July 1905. The Boat Builder is based partially on Jack's drawing Boat-Building at Carna, illustrating a report by Synge on the Galway boat builders, and published in the Manchester Guardian on 28 June, 1905. The painting was completed in 1923, and is now on display in the Yeats' Rooms at Lissadell.
Jack also edited and illustrated the monthly magazine The Broadside with brother W. B. and sisters Lily and Lolly.
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