A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - D is for Elinor Darwin an Irish Illustrator, she worked with W.B. Yeats. She married Charles Darwin's grandson, Bernard, who wrote the Tottleoo series of books. Her illustrations for these were her most celebrated..

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A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - D is for Elinor Darwin an Irish Illustrator, she worked with W.B. Yeats. She married Charles Darwin's grandson, Bernard, who wrote the Tottleoo series of books. Her illustrations for these were her most celebrated..

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A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - D is for Elinor Darwin an Irish Illustrator, she worked with W.B. Yeats. She married Charles Darwin's grandson, Bernard, who wrote the Tottleoo series of books. Her illustrations for these were her most celebrated..

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'Birds in Autumn' ~ Anne Yeats.

This is a two colour planogaphic print (lithograph) on paper, depicting three white birds in flight. Born in Dublin, Yeats trained in the Royal Hibernian Academy school and had a touching naive expressionist style.

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A Christmas mantel.
Mary Cottenham Yeats.

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We draw today's thread to a close with a light-hearted drawing from Jack B. Yeats...

Found on the verso of another drawing, this image depicts a boy in roller skates coming to the aid of another whose foot has become stuck in a hole in a sidewalk. Growing pains!

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Happy Halloween, folks.

from 'Clay' / James Joyce.
Image / Jack B. Yeats.

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ナイトメアの背景に描かれる有翼のユニコーン。詩人イェイツによれば"恍惚とした破壊"の象徴だとか…意味深ですね。

The winged unicorns in the background of Nightmare is a symbol of "ecstatic destruction", according to W. B. Yeats. It's very meaningful.
https://t.co/1chP5FoNmB

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'Birds in Autumn' ~ Anne Yeats.

Anne Yeats was a daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats and a niece of the painter Jack B. Yeats. Yeats had a touching naive expressionist style and was interested in representing domestic humanity.

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Glory to the Brave Singer (1950) and Man Hearing an Old Song (1949) / Jack B. Yeats.

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The Model, Home of the Niland Collection, Sligo. The Model is one of the country’s best collections of Irish modern art with a special focus on the work of Jack B Yeats. Yeats was the brother of the poet & the Irish establishment artist for much of the 20th C

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Another fav. badass moment from the book - A note from Batman to the GCPD Chief Yeats. Ultimate Coolth!

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'Birds in Autumn' ~ Anne Yeats.

Anne was a daughter of the poet W.B. Yeats and a niece of the painter Jack B. Yeats and botanic artist Elizabeth Yeats. This is a two colour planogaphic print (lithograph) on paper, depicting three white birds in flight.

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1830: Birth in of John O’Leary, lead Fenian. (law & medicine) but didn't take degree. In IRB; sentence 20 yrs penal servitude. In exile lived mainly in Paris & visited US. "Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;" WB Yeats. https://t.co/wa1LtQkuz2

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ICYMI, here is this week's Coffee Conversation. Yseult O’Driscoll discusses the portrait of Dr Douglas Hyde LL.D by John Butler Yeats.

Listen here - https://t.co/5QLQw2Fmrx

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The Model, Home of the Niland Collection, Sligo. The Model is one of the country’s best collections of Irish modern art with a special focus on the work of Jack B Yeats. Yeats was the brother of the poet & the Irish establishment artist for much of the 20th C

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1957: Death of Jack Butler Yeats. 3rd most expensive Irish artist & Olympic medallist; "The Liffey Swim"! Siblings: WB, Lily, Lolly. Father: artist John Butler. Landscapes & figures, mainly from W, esp boyhood home of https://t.co/A9QDRq35Ne https://t.co/1r50yBQebO

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1907: Death of John O’Leary, lead Fenian. (law & medicine) but didn't take degree. In IRB; sentence 20 yrs penal servitude. In exile lived mainly in Paris & visited US. "Beautiful lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;" WB Yeats. https://t.co/wa1LtQkuz2

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Althea Gyles (right) with Constance Markiewicz c.1898. Gyles was an Irish poet and artist, friend of Oscar Wilde & W. B. Yeats. Markiewicz was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, the first woman elected to the Westminster Parliament

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Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953), comédienne, militante nationaliste irlandaise, féministe. Mère de S. MacBride, co-fondateur d’Amnesty International. Amie du poète William Butler Yeats.
➡️The Gonne-Yeats letters.
➡️A.Jordan, The Yeats, Gonne, Macbride.
➡️O.Ross, Her secret rose.

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