1946, Jack B. Yeats, Men of Destiny -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: Men of Destiny was painted at a time of particular, widespread reflection: thirty years after the 1916 Rising, and just a year after the end of the Second World War. Drawing on his memory of Sligo fishermen disembarking at Rosses Point and fastening their boats, Yeats appears to explore here the notion of figures leaving their daily employment to fight for freedom. The title of the painting refers at once to Ireland (known as 'Inis Fáil' or 'Land of Destiny'), and Eamon de Valera's Republican party Fianna Fáil ('Warriors of Destiny').
1946, Jack B. Yeats, Men of Destiny -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: Men of Destiny was painted at a time of particular, widespread reflection: thirty years after the 1916 Rising, and just a year after the end of the Second World War. Drawing on his memory of Sligo fishermen disembarking at Rosses Point and fastening their boats, Yeats appears to explore here the notion of figures leaving their daily employment to fight for freedom. The title of the painting refers at once to Ireland (known as 'Inis Fáil' or 'Land of Destiny'), and Eamon de Valera's Republican party Fianna Fáil ('Warriors of Destiny').