Lives by Jack Butler Yeats
Description
Lives includes seven books of drawings, by Jack Butler Yeats, dating from the late 1930s. The seven books are held together in 1 volume by a homemade buff cardboard cover, and inscribed by the artist: ‘Lives by Jack Butler Yeats. Finished about 1939’.The books are numbered 1 - 7, the drawings in the seven books forming a single sequence of 105 drawings. (The artist has numbered the sequence on the verso of each page, with some drawings omitted and some title pages included, hence numbers 1-104). Each copy book measures 25cm x 37.5cm. The artist has added textured paper, cut in crude shapes and decorated with rough coloured designs, to front (and some back covers), obscuring the printed name and replacing it with his own title. Yeats uses various media throughout, including graphite, coloured crayon, watercolour, and ink. The first volume includes multiple image compilations. Subsequently the drawings become increasingly economic in subject matter, often monochrome or near monochrome.
Creator
Yeats, Jack Butler
Related topics
| Title | Lives by Jack Butler Yeats |
|---|---|
| Creator | Yeats, Jack Butler |
| Date | [1935-1939] |
| Type | Component |
| Ref | IE NGI/YA/Y1/JY/1/6 |
| Level | Sub-sub series |
| Condition | Good |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 7 books & 105 drawings |
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