Jack Butler Yeats’s index to paintings and original drawings

Part of the Irish Archive

Description

Alphabetically arranged by title of work and containing approximately 1500 entries (not strictly arranged by first word of title, for example The maid of Ballyhaunis is listed under ‘B’). Entries for each painting include some/all of the following information: title, dimensions, medium, month and/or year of completion, venues and years of exhibition, month and/or year of sale, details of purchaser, purchase price. Occasionally entries are accompanied by a thumbnail sketch of the work. When all pages corresponding to a letter were used additional entries were made in the 2nd and 3rd volumes. Where all allowed space was used in relation to a particular work and subsequent entries were necessary an additional entry is created in the subsequent volume: therefore the entry for the painting Atlantic coast, 1936 begins under ‘A’ in volume 1 and is continued under ‘A’ in volume 2. In these cases ‘see book 2/3’ is often, though not always, entered. An introductory paragraph written by Yeats at the outset of volume one indicates that ‘this book’ was commenced in 1919, that there may be some crossover with works in the ‘old book’ and ‘there may be a few old exhibited drawings or oils not appearing in either book, but I think very few’. ‘S’ is ascribed to entries to denote a sale and ‘G’ to denote a gift. Also details the sale and gift of a number of sketches and sketchbooks (see under ‘S’ volumes 1 and 2, under ‘T’ in volume 2). Also includes a list of medals and other awards.

Creator

Yeats, Jack Butler

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Yeats, Jack Butler