1871 |
Jack B. Yeats is born in London Six months later, the Yeats family moves to Sligo to stay with Susan Yeats' parents Jack's father, John Butler Yeats, stays in London attending art school |
1879-86 |
Yeats family spends most summers in Sligo, at the age of seven Jack is left in the care of his grandparents |
1887 |
Jack returns to London to attend art school |
1888 |
The Yeats family moves to Bedford Park, a housing community for artists and writers Jack sells his first drawing to the Vegetarian |
1894 |
Jack marries Cottie and makes a home in Surrey, England Jack is a regular illustrator for a number of journals including Punch and the Manchester Guardian |
1895 |
Jack has his first exhibit of watercolors with the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin |
1897 |
Jack moves to Devon, England where he sets up his miniature theatre Exhibits a collection of Devon watercolor paintings |
1899 |
Jack begins to paint more Irish subject matter in his watercolors |
1900 |
Susan Yeats, Jack's mother dies Jack continues to work on his miniature theatre, publishes James Flaunty and Esmerarlde Grande |
1902-1903 |
Jack publishes A Broadsheet, precursor to A Broadside |
1905 |
Jack travels throughout Galway and Mayo with writer, John M. Synge for the Manchester Guardian Jack publishes his first illustrated children's book, The Bosun and the Bob-tailed Comet |
1908 |
Lily Yeats establishes the Cuala Press, formerly the Dun Emer Press Jack and Lily Yeats begin publishing A Broadside |
1910 |
Jack and Cottie move back to Ireland permanently and settle in Wicklow |
1915 |
Jack becomes a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy |
1926 |
Jack provides his last drawing for A Broadside, wishing to concentrate on his painting Jack's painting style becomes looser, with less defined lines and more color |
1930s |
Jack begins to focus more on writing, painting less often, publishing a number of novels and plays |
1939 |
Jack's brother, William Butler Yeats dies |
1940 |
Jack's last novel, The Careless Flower, is published in Dublin Magazine |
1950 |
Yeats is awarded the French Legion of Honor |
1957 |
Jack B. Yeats dies in Dublin at the age of 86 |
1996 |
Yeats' painting, A Farewell to Mayo, sells for £730,000 ($1.3 million) at auction |
