An Irish painter: Jack Butler Yeats

Queen Maeve Walked Upon this strand

Faces in the Bog (1929)

oil on canvas


The Stevedore (1947)

Oil on canvas, 14 x 21 in.

The Knight Who Sings

That We May Never Meet Again, 1952-58

 1952-58

Jack Butler Yeats, (born Dublin, Ireland) was one of the most important Irish painters of the 20th century. His scenes of daily life and Celtic mythology contributed to the surge of nationalism in the Irish arts after the Irish War of Independence (1919–21). Yeats was the son of John Butler Yeats, a well-known portrait painter, and the brother of the poet William Butler Yeats.