Booth, Eileen Constance (Peet)
Biographical Note
Eileen Constance Peet was born in 1906 to Constance Rayne and Edward Peet in Dalkey, near Dublin, Ireland. She studied at Bolt Court, an art school in London specialising in teaching printing techniques, and the Slade School of Art. She returned to Ireland, and in about 1934 she married Cyril Booth and began illustrating for Cuala Press. She produced illustrations for the ‘Broadsides’, or printed sheet music of popular nationalistic ballads, which were sold as sets to middle class Irish and British patrons. Her woodblock style was very close to that of Jack B. Yeats. Eileen C. Booth died in 2000.
Source:
Booth, Rayne. "Eileen – A Graphic Memoir", thesis for University of Lisbon, 2020. ProQuest Number:31618209.
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Print No. 283, "The Turf Cart", between 1969-1979
Prints produced from original plates by a newly incorporated iteration of the press, Cuala Press, Ltd., run by Anne and Michael Yeats, children of W.B. Yeats. Unlike prints produced by the original iteration of Cuala Press, these prints are numbered and titled directly on the work.
Collection is open for research.
Roderic Coote ("His Book"), between 1908-1968
2 copies.
Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.
William Matson Roth, between 1908-1968
2 copies.
Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.