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Jack Butler Yeats; Salt Water Ballads
The Model, Sligo The Mall, Sligo, Sligo, IrelandJack Butler Yeats (1871-1957) grew up in Sligo, in the care of his maternal grandparents Elizabeth & William Pollexfen. From an early age, the young artist was steeped in the rich sea-faring culture of the area, where the ocean connected a small town on Europe’s western periphery with the enigmatic outside world. Throughout Yeats’ long career […]