The Crest of the Hill
Date: 1904 Dimensions: 53.5 × 73cm Medium: Watercolour Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented to Sligo County Library and Museum, 1965 by James A. Healy as a memorial to his parents John and Catherine Healy. Description: When shown in New York in 1904, the occasion of the artist’s only visit to
G’Morrow Strawberry
Date: 1903 Dimensions: 14.5 × 9.5cm Medium: Pencil and watercolour on paper Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Lent by Ms Kathleen Goodfellow in 1971, and later presented to the collection. Description: The tiny dimensions of this work indicate that it was probably originally a page from one of the Yeats’s pocket-sized
Portrait of a Girl (woman with white collar) by Artist Unknown
Date: N.D. Dimensions: 29.5 × 44.25cm Medium: Oil Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Unknown
Cartoon Figure of Christ
Date: 1903 Dimensions: 71 × 112cm Medium: Gouache Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased from Dawson Gallery by Sligo County Library and Museum in 1966 Description: In 1903 Jack Yeats and wife, Cottie, were commissioned to design the sodality banners for new cathedral at Loughrea, Co. Galway. Designs for 29 banners
Fortune and her wheel
Date: 1902 Dimensions: 43.5 × 28.5cm Medium: Pencil and poster paint on card Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented by James A. Healy in 1965 Description: A woman sits with a fortune wheel on a stone wall surrounded by a crowd of men. To her right a bearded man in theatrical
Simon the Cyrenian
Date: 1901 Dimensions: 30.5 × 23cm Medium: Watercolour Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased by Sligo County Library and Museum through public subscription in 1963 Description: This is one of several ‘sacred pictures’ as Yeats described them, with a crowd grouped in the upper half of the picture, with Christ and