Thomas MacGreevy / JACK B YEATS AN APPRECIATION AND AN INTERPRETATION SIGNED 1st

Description: JACK B. YEATS, AN APPRECIATION AND AN INTERPRETATION (SIGNED, AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY JACK B. YEATS) Author: MacGreevy, Thomas Title: JACK B. YEATS, AN APPRECIATION AND AN INTERPRETATION (SIGNED, AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY JACK B. YEATS) Publication: Dublin, Ireland: Victor Waddington Publications Limited, 1945 Edition: First Edition Description: Hardcover. 12mo, 5 x 7.6 in., p. 39 + 58 (Twenty-nine black and white plates of Jack B. Yeats' paintings). Planned, printed and bound in Ireland by Colin O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles, Dublin. Beige paper boards with maroon title and decorative monogam ("JBW") to cover. Designer gray endpapers. Publisher's red topstain. Very light rubbing to extremities; very light spotting to fore-edge and tail. Light fading to price-clipped dustjacket with gentle rubbing and age-toning to top edge. Dustjacket is price clipped. Protected in mylar. Original hand-drawn picture in blue ink of sailboat, horse, and ducks signed by Jack. B. Yeats to title page. Yeats was one of the foremost Irish painters of the 20th Century, and brother of poet W.B. Yeats. Presentation copy signed by author with inscription: "Richard Hayward's book" to publisher's page. Richard Hayward (1892-1964) was an Irish poet, novelist, playwright, historian, film actor, specialist in Ulster dialect, and ballad singer; he produced over 100 records. Included: A mid-1940s postcard found in book when acquired, printed by The National Library of Ireland of a black and white drawing of W.B. Yeats by Jack B. Yeats entitled "(W.B. Yeats when a Boy)". The handwritten ink message on the postcard reads: "Very Best Wishes to you all for Christmas and the New Year - William M. Glynn, Newtown School". William M. Glynn was the principal of The Newtown School, a Quaker school founded in 1798, which in the 1930s founded The Waterford Gallery, promoting Irish artists, including Jack B. Yeats, as world-renowned contributors. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. "From around 1920, he developed into an intensely Expressionist artist, moving from illustration to Symbolism. He was sympathetic to the Irish Republican cause, but not politically active. However, he believed that 'a painter must be part of the land and of the life he paints', and his own artistic development, as a Modernist and Expressionist, helped articulate a modern Dublin of the 20th century, partly by depicting specifically Irish subjects, but also by doing so in the light of universal themes such as the loneliness of the individual, and the universality of the plight of man. Samuel Beckett wrote that "Yeats is with the great of our time... because he brings light, as only the great dare to bring light, to the issueless predicament of existence."The Marxist art critic and author John Berger also paid tribute to Yeats from a very different perspective, praising the artist as a "great painter" with a "sense of the future, an awareness of the possibility of a world other than the one we know"...In 1943 he accepted Victor Waddington as his sole dealer and business manager. Waddington played a crucial role in his career and reputation. Seller ID: 85590 Subject: Irish & Ireland: Fiction and Poetry Aardvark Rare Books Eugene, OR We work hard to make your Bookbuying Experience safe, easy and fun. Aardvark Books is a proud member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America) and IOBA, Independent Online Booksellers Association. Ezra is also an accredited and Qualified Appraiser of Books and Manuscripts, with a designation from the ASA (American Society of Appraisers), with considerable Archive experience as well. Shipping All books shipped to US destinations are sent via the US Postal Service. Faster shipping is available, please ask before paying. We will combine shipping on items purchased at the same time in order to help reduce costs. International shipping is also available. Please inquire for a shipping quote before ordering.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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