Portrait Figure of an Irish Gentleman
Date: c. 1900 Dimensions: 25.5 × 35.5cm Medium: Watercolour Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented to Sligo County Library and Museum in by James A. Healy in 1965, as a memorial to his parents John and Catherine Healy. Description: The original title of the painting has not been identified. It is
The Stargazer
Date: 1900 Dimensions: 46 × 30.5cm Medium: Watercolour Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Bought by Sligo County Library and Museum from the Capuchin Annual in 1962. Description: Yeats transforms an image of a jockey on horseback into a poignant and poetic idea in this early watercolour. The cut-off composition emphasises the
The Bay Pilot, The River Pilot, The Stevedore, The Ganger and the Gang
Date: 1900 Dimensions: 8 × 11cm 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: The five separate watercolours were based on sketches of men working on the Sligo quays
A Sunday Morning in Sligo
Date: 1898 Dimensions: 44.5 × 28cm Medium: Watercolour Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Presented to Sligo County Library and Museum in 1963
Red Hanrahan’s Vision
Date: c. 1896 Dimensions: 36 × 26cm Medium: Watercolour Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: Purchased from the Dawson gallery in 1968 by Sligo County Library and Museum. Description: This monochrome watercolour is an illustration to W.B. Yeats’s Stories of Red Hanrahan, which first appeared in The Secret Rose, (1897). This mystical
The Strand Races, West Of Ireland
Date: 1895 Medium: Watercolour and pencil Collection: Niland Collection Provenance: On loan from Dick Chambers, Rathedmond, Sligo.