The Liffey Swim 1923 Jack B Yeats 1993 Repro Oil Painting National Gallery Of Ireland.
"The Liffey Swim" was painted by Yeats in 1923 and won a Silver Medal in the arts and culture segment of the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. This painting set Yeats as a serious, collectible artist. This item is a print of "The Liffey Swim" on canvas with a clear finish to reproduce brush strokes as seen in photos 6-7. It was distributed by the National Gallery of Ireland in 1993.
Adapted from online sources: Jack Butler Yeats (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist.
Butler's early style was that of an illustrator; he only began to work regularly in oils in 1906. His early pictures are simple lyrical depictions of landscapes and figures, predominantly from the west of Ireland—especially of his boyhood home of Sligo. Yeats's work contains elements of Romanticism. He later would adopt the style of Expreseeionism. Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medalist at the 1924 Summer Olympic Games in Paris in the wake of creation of the Irish Free State. Yeats' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.
Frame measures 29" x 20 1/8" x 1".
Visable image measures 24 7/8" x 16 1/8".