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Coole Library with W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and George Russell
Coole Library with W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and George Russell

Coole Library with W. B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and George Russell

Artist (1871 - 1957)
Date1900
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions24.1 × 35.6 cm
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Purchased, 2022. © The Estate of Jack B. Yeats.
Object number2147
DescriptionJack B. Yeats depicts the library at Coole House, an important gathering place for artists and writers, which was the home of the writer Augusta, Lady Gregory, who was Sir Hugh Lane’s aunt. The people featured in this drawing, Augusta Gregory, George Russell (AE), and William Butler Yeats, were prominent artistic figures who are all closely associated with the founding of the Hugh Lane Gallery.
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On the Lake, Coole
Jack B Yeats
1913
Lady Gregory
Antonio Mancini
1907
W. B. Yeats
Sarah Henrietta Purser
c. 1904
Portrait of Miss Iris Tree
Augustus Edwin John
c. 1912 - 1914
Robert Gregory
Charles Haslewood Shannon
1906
W. B. Yeats
William Rothenstein
1898
Lady Gregory
Jacob Epstein
1910
William Butler Yeats
John Butler Yeats
c. 1886
George Russell (AE)
John Hughes
Late 1880s
Empty Creels
Jack B Yeats
1913