© Estate of Jack B Yeats, DACS London / IVARO Dublin, 2018
 
Jack B. Yeats, Irish, 1871-1957
Title: Many Ferries
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
51 x 69 cm
Signed: lower right: Jack B. Yeats
Credit Line: Bequeathed, Mrs J. Egan, through the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, 1960
Object Number: NGI.1550
ProvenancePurchased, Mrs Julie Egan, 1951; bequeathed, Mrs J. Egan, through the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, 1960
Exhibition HistoryUnited Nations International Art Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1951

Friends of the National Collections of Ireland Exhibition, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1964

Modern Irish Painting (An Chomhirle Ealaion), Helsinki; Göteborg; Norrköpping; Stockholm; Copenhagen; Bielefeld; Bonn; Saarbrücken; London; Leeds; Glasgow; Dublin, 1969-1971

Jack B. Yeats 1871-1957: A Centenary Exhibition, Dublin; New York, 1971-1972

Jack B. Yeats in the National Gallery of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1986
Label TextMany Ferries recalls a visit Yeats made in 1905, with the playwright John Millington Synge, to Dinish Island, one of a group of islands off the coast of Connemara known collectively as Ceantar na nOileán. A ferryman took the two travellers up to the highest point of the island to show them the view. Synge wrote about the expedition in a series of essays published in 1911. In Yeats’s painting, he depicts the remembered ferryman in a broad-brimmed hat looking down at the string of islands.

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