Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A. (1871-1957)

On 9 April 1926 the Liverpool Post noted Yeats's developing palette and handling in the works then on show at Arthur Tooth and Sons: 'This fluent use of paint is more noticeable than ever in Mr Yeats's work this year, and there is an increased delicacy in his colour and sensibility in the employment of it, illustrated by the little Death of the Croppy Boy, Queen's Theatre, for example, and by the charming small landscapes, In Kildare, The Tops of the Mountains, and others'.

Hilary Pyle (loc. cit.) comments on the present work: 'A freely painted landscape of mountain tops beneath a restless sky. Stylistically it belongs with the smooth landscapes of 1925, though the expressive brushwork of the foreground suggests it is a transitional work'.