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Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland
Kathleen Raine (Foreword), William Butler Yeats (Editor), Jack B. Yeats (Illustrator)
A beautiful book with fantastic Irish fol tales edited by William and illustrated by Jack Butler Yeats.
416 pages of Irish gold!
John Booth
The author traces the artist's life and work, from his colourful family background, through his early days as a line illustrator, to the later years when his highly original style and extravagant use of colour earned him comparisons with Titian and Giorgone. This book, richly illustrated with some of the finest examples of his work, underlines the fact that Jack B. Yeats is not only a great Irish painter but one of the major figures in 20th century European art.
The jacket illustration is "The Liffey Swim", 1923.
Synopsis
A text which follows the life and work of Jack B. Yeats - arguably Ireland's most famous painter - from his colourful family background, through his early days as a line illustrator, to the latter years when his originality and use of colour earned him comparisons with Titian and Giorgone.
Tim Rosenthal
Jack B. Yeats is probably the greatest painter Ireland has ever produced, although often overshadowed somewhat by his more famous brother, the poet W. B. Yeats, he is undoubtedly an artistic genius in his own right. First published to great acclaim in 1993, this is one of very few popular books on Yeat's work. With more than 100 colour plates and 175 black and white illustrations it is an authoritative and glorious appreciation of Yeats's vast and varied output.
Literary Works of Jack B. Yeats
John W. Purser
Hardcover 220 pages (December 28, 1990)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books-Imports, Div of Rowman & Littlefield Pubs