The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Title Page
1965–66, printed 1979
(Irish, b. 1939)
Gift of Alan and Monah L. Gettner 2023.72.1
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
1965 was the centenary of the birth of William Butler Yeats, one of Ireland’s greatest poets.Description
It was in 1965 thatAlen MacWeeney returned from four years in New York City, where he had worked in the studio of portraitist and fashion photographer Richard Avedon. Rather than reflect his American experience in his work, MacWeeney decided to experiment with two quite different sources of inspiration: Yeats’s poetry and what the photographer called “the Ireland of my imagination.”- ?-2023Alan and Monah Gettner, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHJune 5, 2023-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.72.1