Creator
Watercolor by Jack Yeats, signed and dated,
Title
The Hard Stuff
Date
1898
Subject
Provenance: Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Description
The youngest brother of William, Susan, and Elizabeth Yeats, Jack Yeats became one of Ireland’s most esteemed painters. He began his career as an illustrator in journals, then most notably contributed work to his sisters’ Cuala Press. The Hard Stuff, representing a whiskey tent at a racecourse in the West of Ireland, was among Yeats’s earliest watercolors.
Source
Courtesy of Jim Cummins
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