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Article: Successful picture of brothers in arts; Jack Yeats. By Bruce Arnold (Yale: pounds 29.95). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- October 10, 1998
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Jack Butler Yeats, the Irish painter of the soul whose life is captured triumphantly by Bruce Arnold in this long-awaited book, has sometimes been lost in the recesses of his own family, frequently suffering confusion with his brother the poet.
He was, in fact, the son of the distinguished Irish portrait painter, John Butler Yeats, and brother of the poet WB Yeats.
Unlike so many Irish painters of his day, Jack Yeats managed to achieve great success during his lifetime, breaking with style and introducing a kind of demolishing vigour into the pallid world of ...