Series IX. Jack B. Yeats, 1904-1980, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
The series contains correspondence, articles, clippings, invitations, cancelled checks, receipts, notes, exhibition catalogs, stamps and photographs collected by Ernie O'Malley relating to Jack B. Yeats, as well as, items relating to Yeats' father, John B. Yeats, and brother, William Butler Yeats. Items in this series are of both a personal and professional nature. O'Malley and Jack B. Yeats met in Ireland during the 1930s and developed a friendship that lasted until their deaths in 1957. In addition to being a patron of Yeats' artwork, O'Malley served on the Jack B. Yeats National Loan Exhibition Committee and authored the introduction for the exhibition's catalog in 1945. Throughout the course of their friendship Yeats gifted O'Malley various pencil sketches and writings by John B. Yeats, in addition to several letters written by the elder Yeats to his other son, William Butler Yeats. Other items include Yeats materials collected by Ernie O'Malley's son, Cormac O'Malley.
Index to Jack B. Yeats material, 2010, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Article: "Fifty Years of Irish Painting" Thomas MacGreevy in The Capuchin Annual, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Article: "Jack B. Yeats: An Impression" by Mairin Allen, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Article "The Yeats Exhibition" C.P. Curran in The Capuchin Annual, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Article: "Three Historical Paintings by Jack B. Yeats" Thomas MacGreevy in The Capuchin Annual, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Article: "Visits to Jack Yeats" John Rothenstein in New English Review, Jul 1946, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Commemorative Stamps: Jack B. Yeats (on postcard addressed to COM), 1971, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Connaught Toast" Cuala Press card; EOM correspondence on verso, undated
Box: 7, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Yeats, Jack B. to EOM, 1939-1951, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
This correspondence consists of 35 pages.
Correspondence: Yeats, John B. to William Butler Yeats (Willie), 1916-1919, inclusive
Box: 7, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
This correspondence consists of 7 pages.
Envelope - addressed to EOM with Jack B. Yeats insignia, 1939, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog: "Exhibition of Later Paintings by Jack B. Yeats" Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, Nov 1943, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog: "Jack Yeats: Irish Expressionist" Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, Mar 15, 1980-Apr 30, 1980, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog: "Jack B. Yeats: National Loan Exhibition" National College of Art, Dublin, Jun 1945-Jul 1945, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog: "Later Paintings by Jack B Yeats" at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin (annotations and signature of EOM), Mar 1945, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog: "Pictures by Anne Yeats" annotated, 1948, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog: "Paintings by Jack B. Yeats" Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, Mar 1945, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog: "Paintings by Jack B. Yeats" Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, Oct 1946-Nov 1946, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog: "Paintings by Jack B. Yeats" Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, Feb 1955, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog: "A Small Collection of Later Work of Jack B. Yeats," The Contemporary Picture Gallery, Dublin, Oct 27, 1941-Nov 8, 1941, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Exhibition Catalog and Invitation: "Paintings by Jack B. Yeats" Wildenstein and Co., Ltd. Gallery, London, Feb 13, 1946-Mar 9, 1946, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Invitations: Cuala Press, circa 1940-1950, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Invitation: Jack B. Yeats to Ernie O'Malley and wife to private viewing of exhibition of later paintings, 1943, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Invitations to performances of "A Night at the Inn" and "La La Noo" at Abbey Theatre (plays), Apr 1942-May 1942, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Clippings, 1904-1952, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook: Sketches and critiques of paintings in Yeats National Loan Exhibition, Jun 1945, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
This notebook contains a total of 65 pages, only 26 of which have writing.
Paintings: reproductions of, from publications, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Photograph: photocopy of reproduction of Thomas MacGreevy at Yeats Exhibit, circa 1947, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Publication: The Dublin Magazine volume 1, number 6, Jan 1924
Box: 9, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Publication: The Dublin Magazine volume 1, number 8, Mar 1924, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Publication: The Treasure of the Garden play by Jack B. Yeats (published by Elkin Mathews, London), undated
Box: 9, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Yeats, John B.: Essays, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Yeats, John B.: Essays, undated
Box: 9, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Yeats Paintings in Ireland: Lists by Ernie O'Malley, circa 1945, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Yeats Paintings: List by Ernie O'Malley, circa 1945, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Yeats Paintings: Sales history, circa 1945, inclusive
Box: 9, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
