Jack Yeats: a biography / Bruce Arnold

New Haven; London: Yale Univ. Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: x, 418 pages: illustrations (some color); 27 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-401) and index. Contents: Origins -- Early life in Sligo -- Art school in London, 1887-1889 -- Bedford Park: the 1890s -- Work and marriage, 1891-1897 -- Devon and the first London shows, 1897-1899 -- Miniature Theatre, 1900-1901 -- The Broadsheets and John Masefield, 1901-1903 -- Ireland and the United States, 1904-1905 -- John M. Synge, 1905-1909 -- Last days in England, 1909-1910 -- The Broadsides, 1910-1915 -- Nervous breakdown, 1915-1918 -- A Dublin man, 1919-1922 -- Modernism and the issue of style, 1923-1930 -- Career as writer, 1931-1935 -- 'Lives, ' 1936-1938 -- Death of William Butler Yeats, 1939 -- The outbreak of war, 1940-1942 -- Painter triumphant, 1943-1945 -- Death for only one, 1945-1947 -- Last years, 1948-1957. Subjects: Yeats, Jack B. (Jack Butler) 1871-1957. Artists Ireland; Biography. Painters Ireland; Biography. Painters, Irish 19th century; Biography. Painters, Irish 20th century; Biography. Politics in art Ireland. Genre: Biography. Catalogue.