The Crest Of The Hill by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

The Crest of the Hill

Date: 1904 Dimensions: 53.5 × 73cm Medium: Watercolour Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented to Sligo County Library and Museum, 1965 by James A. Healy as a memorial to his parents John and Catherine Healy. Description: When shown in New York in 1904, the occasion of the artist’s only visit to

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G'Morrow Strawberry by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

G’Morrow Strawberry

Date: 1903 Dimensions: 14.5 × 9.5cm Medium: Pencil and watercolour on paper Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Lent by Ms Kathleen Goodfellow in 1971, and later presented to the collection. Description: The tiny dimensions of this work indicate that it was probably originally a page from one of the Yeats’s pocket-sized

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Portrait of a Girl (woman with white collar) by Artist Unknown

Portrait of a Girl (woman with white collar) by Artist Unknown

Date: N.D. Dimensions: 29.5 × 44.25cm Medium: Oil Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Unknown

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Cartoon For Figure Of Christ by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Cartoon Figure of Christ

Date: 1903 Dimensions: 71 × 112cm Medium: Gouache Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased from Dawson Gallery by Sligo County Library and Museum in 1966 Description: In 1903 Jack Yeats and wife, Cottie, were commissioned to design the sodality banners for new cathedral at Loughrea, Co. Galway. Designs for 29 banners

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Fortune And Her Wheel by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Fortune and her wheel

Date: 1902 Dimensions: 43.5 × 28.5cm Medium: Pencil and poster paint on card Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A. Healy in 1965 Description: A woman sits with a fortune wheel on a stone wall surrounded by a crowd of men. To her right a bearded man in theatrical

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Simon The Cyrenian by Jack B. Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Simon the Cyrenian

Date: 1901 Dimensions: 30.5 × 23cm Medium: Watercolour Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by Sligo County Library and Museum through public subscription in 1963 Description: This is one of several ‘sacred pictures’ as Yeats described them, with a crowd grouped in the upper half of the picture, with Christ and

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