- Anne Yeats
Anne Butler Yeats (
9 May 1919 –4 July 2001 ) was an Irish painter and stage designer. She was a daughter of the poetWilliam Butler Yeats and a niece of the painterJack B. Yeats and botanic artist Elizabeth Yeats. Her brotherMichael Yeats was a politician.Born in
Dublin , Ireland, Anne Yeats trained in theRoyal Hibernian Academy school from 1933-36 and worked as a stage designer with the Abbey before taking up painting full time in 1941; she had a touching naive expressionist style and was interested in representing domestic humanity. The Royal Hibernian Academy held a retrospective of her work in 1995, as did theNational Gallery of Ireland in 2002. She donated her collection of Jack B. Yeats' sketch books to the National Gallery of Ireland, leading to the creation of the Yeats Museum within the Gallery. Her brother, Michael, in turn, donated her sketchbooks to the Museum.Yeats never married.
Work in collections
*The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
*TheHugh Lane Municipal Gallery , Dublin
*TheUlster Museum , Belfast
*Trinity College, Dublin
*Sligo County Gallery, Sligo
*The Arts Council of IrelandReferences
* [http://www.artscouncil.ie/aosdana/biogs/former_visarts/anneyeats.html Aosdána biographical note]
*David Scott (1989), "The modern art collection, Trinity College, Dublin". Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press, ISBN 1-871408-01-6
*Martyn Anglesea (2002), "Yeats, Anne" in Brian Lalor (Ed.), "The Encyclopedia of Ireland". Dublin: Gill and Macmillian. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2External links
* [http://www.nationalgallery.ie/ National Gallery of Ireland]
* [http://www.nli.ie/yeats Major exhibition about the artist's father, W.B. Yeats.]
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