The New York Times Book Review, Terence Brown
...his evident affection and respect for Jack Yeats the man shine through even as he must admit the mixed quality of the work.


The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe Lou Adams
The Yeats family as a whole--the poet, the painter, and their two energetic sisters--was influential in all aspects of the Irish renascence of the early twentieth century, a fact that gives Mr. Arnold a wonderful, and wonderfully quotable, cast of characters for this splendid, well-illustrated biography.


Book Description
This engrossing book is the first biography of Jack Yeats, a giant figure in twentieth- century Irish art and younger brother of W.B. Yeats. Bruce Arnold examines Yeats' prodigious output of art and literature; his friendships with Masefield, Synge, Beckett, and others; and his identification with his chosen country, Ireland.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This engrossing book is the first biography of Jack Yeats, a giant figure in twentieth- century Irish art and younger brother of W.B. Yeats. Bruce Arnold examines Yeats'prodigious output of art and literature; his friendships with Masefield, Synge, Beckett, andothers; and his identification with his chosen country, Ireland. .

FROM THE CRITICS

William M. Murphy - Irish Arts Review

Arnold covers Jack's long and interesting life in abundant detail. We have hundreds of line drawings, sketches, portraits, and photographs, and a marvelous collection of colored plates in a large volume.

Atlantic Monthly

[A] splendid, well-illustrated biography.

Terence Brown - The New York Times Book Review

[Arnold's] evident affection and respect for Jack Yeats the man shine through even as he must admit the mixed quality of the work....[This] study allows us to reckon with Yeats' strength's and weaknesses as an artist while we salute a man whose independence of mind made him both free spirit and Irish patriot.

Terence Brown