My Pick – Annie West
The thing I like best about the broadsides is the layout of the sheet. They are all the same layout and typeface so it’s lovely and clean. Yeats uses less rather than more. The illustrations are so simple but really annoyingly beautiful. He just gets it; it’s hard to explain.
New Acquisition for The Niland Collection
Several years ago I took a phone call from a gentleman with a European accent that I couldn’t immediately put my finger on. He was calling to say that he wanted to leave The Niland Collection a Jack B Yeats painting in his will. I thanked him enormously and said