Anne Yeats
- Category : Art-Fine-art-artist
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 2/4 - Hermit / Opportunist
- Definition : Split - Small (19,41,55)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Planning 1
Biography
Irish painter and stage designer. She was a daughter of the poet William Butler Yeats. Her brother Michael Yeats was a politician.
Anne Yeats trained in the Royal Hibernian Academy school from 1933–36 and worked as a stage designer with the Abbey before taking up painting full-time in 1941. She designed many of the covers for the books of Irish-language publisher Sáirséal agus Dill over a twenty-year period from 1958.
The Royal Hibernian Academy held a retrospective of her work in 1995, as did the National Gallery of Ireland in 2002. The Yeats Museum within this gallery holds her sketchbooks.
Yeats never married. She died on 4 July 2001.