Seeing New York Jack Butler Yeats and the American city
In 1904, Jack Butler Yeats and his wife Mary Cottenham Yeats, travelled to New York on the invitation of John Quinn, the notable Irish American businessman and art collector. While the relationship between Yeats and Quinn has been well-documented, only scant attention has been paid to the rich visua...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Art history at the crossroads of Ireland and the United States / edited by Cynthia Fowler and Paula Murphy |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In 1904, Jack Butler Yeats and his wife Mary Cottenham Yeats, travelled to New York on the invitation of John Quinn, the notable Irish American businessman and art collector. While the relationship between Yeats and Quinn has been well-documented, only scant attention has been paid to the rich visual archive made by the artist during his stay in America. Contained within several sketchbooks (now in the Yeats Archive at the National Gallery of Ireland) this important visual collection depicts the Yeats’ journey across the Atlantic, along with the days and nights spent in Manhattan, Ellis and Staten Island, and New Jersey, taking in streets, shops, and restaurants, as well as plays, vaudeville acts, and marionette shows in the theatres of Chinatown, Broadway, and Brooklyn. Delving into Yeats’s rich graphic record of his time in New York, this chapter considers Yeats’s observation of, and enjoyment in, the variety of life in an American city. |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-032-12127-7 |