On the white strand
Denis Donoghue, 4 April 1991
The Selected Writings of Jack B. Yeats
edited byRobin Skelton.
Deutsch, 246 pp., £12.99, March 1991,0 233 98646 4 Show More
edited byRobin Skelton.
Deutsch, 246 pp., £12.99, March 1991,
“... Jack Yeats’s paintings are much admired and, it appears, universally loved. I recall a large show of them a few years ago at the National Gallery in Dublin. I have rarely seen people looking at paintings with such evident pleasure. Admittedly, the show was in Dublin, and Yeats is deemed to be Ireland’s greatest painter, so those who stood before the choice paintings were prejudiced in their favour ... ”