Prodigal Father Revisited Artists and Writers in the World of John Butler Yeats

Sections on "Art and Artists" and "Writers and Dreamers, now and then" present new details about JBY's importance in the development of American critical thought and his friendship with Ashcan School artist John Sloan." "Prodigal Father Revisited concludes with Jeanne Foster's memorial poem and art patron John Quinn's previously unpublished letter to W. B. Yeats, written in May 1922 - three months after the death of John Butler Yeats."--BOOK JACKET.