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Driftwood in a Cave

Date

1948

Creator

Jack B. Yeats
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

In Jack Yeats’s Driftwood in a Cave, a man clad in a long coat strides out of the dark into a luminous void. Looking on from behind, the viewer is left to imagine what he sees—presumably the sea whose tides brought the driftwood strewn to either side. The stark frame created by the mouth of the cave focuses attention on the figure rather than on the landscape, inviting a reading of the scene in terms of allegory or subjective experience.

from Snay, The Donald and Marilyn Keough Collection of Irish Art (Notre Dame, 2019)

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Metadata

Creator
Jack B. Yeats (Irish, 1871 - 1957)
Date
1948
Classification
Paintings
Related Location
Europe, Ireland
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
14 x 21 in. (35.56 x 53.34 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Donald and Marilyn Keough FoundationGift of the Donald and Marilyn Keough Foundation
Copyright Status
Copyright
Copyright Statement
© Estate of Jack B. Yeats. All rights reserved, DACS / ARS 2019
Subject
figures
male
men

Metadata

Accession Number
2018.005.003
Campus Location
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Access

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art: Raclin Murphy Museum

Metadata

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