Anne Butler Yeats was an Irish painter, costume and stage designer.
14 Facts About Anne Yeats
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Anne Yeats was the daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats and Georgie Hyde-Lees, a niece of the painter Jack Butler Yeats, and of Lily Yeats and of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats.
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Anne Yeats's aunts were associated with the arts and crafts movement in Ireland and were associated with the Dun Emer Press, Cuala Press, and Dun Emer industries.
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Anne Yeats spent her first 3 years between Ballylee, County Galway, and Oxford before her family moved to 82 Merrion Square, Dublin in 1922.
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Anne Yeats attended St Margaret's Hall, 50 Mespil Rd, and Nightingale Hall, Morehampton Rd Dublin.
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Anne Yeats trained in the Royal Hibernian Academy school from 1933 to 1936, and worked as a stage designer with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
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Anne Yeats studied for four months at the School of Theatrical Design in Paris with Paul Colin in 1937.
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Anne Yeats designed the first play of her uncle Jack Yeats to receive professional production, Harlequin's Positions.
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Anne Yeats designed and stage-managed for The Peacock, The Cork Opera House, The Olympia, The Gaiety Theatre, the Austin Clarke Lyric Theatre, the Abbey Theatre and Player's Theatre.
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Anne Yeats chose to move towards painting full-time beginning a brief study at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1941.
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Anne Yeats had a touching naive expressionist style and was interested in representing domestic humanity.
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Anne Yeats designed many of the covers for the books of Irish-language publisher Sairseal agus Dill over a twenty-year period from 1958.
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Anne Yeats did illustrations for books by Denis Devlin, Thomas Kinsella and Louis MacNeice, and worked with many young designers, such as Louis LeBrocquy.
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Anne Yeats donated her collection of Jack B Yeats' sketchbooks to the National Gallery of Ireland, leading to the creation of the Yeats Museum within the gallery.