A Western Town, Night by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

A Western Town at Night

Date: 1925 Dimensions: 35.5 × 23cm Medium: Oil on panel Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A. Healy in New York to Sligo County Library and Museum. In memory of his parents, John and Catherine Healy in 1966. Description: The Western Town referred to in the title is almost

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Singing The Beautiful Picture by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Singing “The beautiful Picture”

Date: 1925 Dimensions: 35.5 × 23cm Medium: Oil on panel Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A. Healy in New York to Sligo County Library and Museum. In memory of his parents, John and Catherine Healy in 1966. Description: A man stands on a summer’s evening holding a ballad

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Communicating With Prisoners by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Communicating with Prisoners

Date: c. 1924 Dimensions: 59 × 44cm Medium: Oil on canvas Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by public subscription from the Capuchin Annual in 1962 Description: This is one of Yeats’s most important depictions of life in Dublin in the early years of the Free State. A group of women

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Shruna Meala, Rosses Point by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Shruna Meala, Rosses Point

Date: 1923 Dimensions: 35 × 22.5cm Medium: Oil on panel Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by Sligo County Library and Museum in 1963.

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Singing The Minstrel Boy by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Singing The Minstrel Boy

Date: 1923 Dimensions: 59.5 × 44cm Medium: Oil on canvas Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Gift to Sligo County Library and Museum in 1963, from Dr. Thomas McGreevy.

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An Island Funeral by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

An Island Funeral

Date: 1923 Dimensions: 91.5 × 61cm Medium: Oil on canvas Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by public subscription from the Capuchin Annual in 1962 Description: This sharply observed painting depicts a coffin being brought from the remote Blasket Islands, off the West Kerry coast, to the mainland for burial in

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