YEATS, Jack B.

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"Tumblers at the Circus". Published within A Broadside for December 1912 (number seven of the fifth year of publication). Jack B. Yeats provided four drawings to the December 1912 issue of A Broadside of which "Tumblers at the Circus" is the important full-page illustration.This is one of the artist's trademark circus scenes. From boyhood to old age, Yeats was captivated by circuses; they feature in his earliest diaries and sketchbooks and were depicted in some of his final oil paintings. In his essay, "Jack B. Yeats: Promise and Regret", Brian O'Doherty identified the artist's "repertory companies of character and themes" to consist of "tinkers, gypsies, sailors, circus performers, actors, travellers, tramps, jockeys, gamblers".A Broadside was published between June 1908 and May 1915 by the two Yeats sisters. There were 84 issues in total. As described by Hilary Pyle, "Yeats's practice was to published one or two ballads or poems with two small line block illustrations by himself, and fill in the third page with a single illustration, often a drawing dating from years before".Yeats exhibited this drawing on three occasions: 21 May - 29 June 1913, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, "Summer Exhibition of Irish Art" (group exhibition); October 1913, Black and White Artists's Society of Ireland, Dublin (group exhibition); and 31 May - 21 June 1919, Little Art Rooms, London, "Drawings and Pictures of Life in the West of Ireland" (solo exhibition).After the artist's death, the drawi

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