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Jack Butler Yeats

1871–1957

A Rose Among Many Waters 1952
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Biography

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist. W. B. Yeats was his brother.

Butler's early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906. His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland—especially of his boyhood home of Sligo. Yeats's work contains elements of Romanticism. He later would adopt the style of Expressionism.

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Artworks

  • Jack Butler Yeats Back from the Races

    1925
  • Jack Butler Yeats Two Travellers

    1942
  • Jack Butler Yeats The Death of Diarmuid, the Last Handful of Water

    1945
  • Jack Butler Yeats Morning after Rain

    1923
  • Jack Butler Yeats A Rose Among Many Waters

    1952

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