Jack Butler Yeats RHA was an Irish artist and Olympic medalist.
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12 Facts About Jack Yeats
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Jack Yeats was the youngest son of Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats and the brother of W B Yeats, who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Jack Yeats attended the Chiswick School of Art with his sisters Elizabeth and Susan, learning "Freehand drawing in all its branches, practical Geometry and perspective, pottery and tile painting, design for decorative purposes – as in Wall-papers, Furniture, Metalwork, Stained Glass".
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Jack Yeats was sympathetic to the Irish Republican cause, but not politically active.
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Jack Yeats frequently abandoned the brush altogether, applying paint in a variety of different ways, and was deeply interested in the expressive power of colour.
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Besides painting, Jack Yeats had a significant interest in theatre and in literature.
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Jack Yeats designed sets for the Abbey Theatre, and three of his own plays were produced there.
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Jack Yeats was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1916.
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Jack Yeats holds the distinction of being Ireland's first medalist at the Olympic Games in the wake of creation of the Irish Free State.
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At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Jack Yeats' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.
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