Yeats, Anne, 1919-2001
Dates
- Existence: 1919-02-26 - 2001-07-04
Biographical note
Anne Yeats was born on February 26, 1919, in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of poet W.B. (William Butler) Yeats and Georgie (Hyde-Lees) Yeats. Anne Yeats trained in the Royal Hibernian Academy while working as a stage designer with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. She was hired by the Abbey in 1936 as an assistant, was promoted to head of design in 1939, and she departed in 1941 to focus on painting full time. Yeats painted with oil and watercolor and experimented with lithography and etching. She also designed many of the covers for the books of Irish-language publisher, Sáirséal agus Dill, and she revived the Cuala Press in 1969. Yeats died in Dublin on July 4, 2001.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Anne Yeats, approximately 1947
Artworks, correspondence, and ephemera related to siblings Elizabeth Corbet, Jack B., Lily, and W.B. Yeats, as well as one letter written by their father, John Butler, and a printing plate by W.B.'s daughter Anne. The bulk of the material concerns Jack B. Yeats.
Collection is open for research.
Anne Yeats and Leslie MacWeeney in Dublin, 2025
Selected images from a 1963 photo shoot of Anne Yeats in a Photomat booth in Busáras Bus Station, Dublin, accompanied by MacWeeney's sister Leslie.
Collection is open for research.
Anne Yeats artwork, approximately 1966, 1993
Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.
Cuala Press, Ltd., between 1969-1983
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.
Printing plate, linoleum cut by Anne Yeats of "Louis Le Brocquy as a Young Man", approximately 1947
Artworks, correspondence, and ephemera related to siblings Elizabeth Corbet, Jack B., Lily, and W.B. Yeats, as well as one letter written by their father, John Butler, and a printing plate by W.B.'s daughter Anne. The bulk of the material concerns Jack B. Yeats.
Collection is open for research.
Studio inventory by the executor of Jack B. Yeats's estate, Anne Yeats, approximately 1957
Includes correspondence, original drawings, published illustrations and reproductions of paintings, and ephemera related to exhibits of Jack B. Yeats's artwork. Note that prints designed by Jack B. Yeats but printed by Cuala Press can be found in Yeats family presses series.
Collection is open for research.
Boston College collection of Yeats family papers
The Boston College collection of Yeats family papers includes artwork, correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks, and photographs by and about siblings W. B., Elizabeth Corbet, Lily, and Jack B. Yeats; their father, John Butler Yeats; the wife of W. B., Georgie Yeats; the daughter of W.B., Anne Yeats; and the son of W.B., Michael B. Yeats. It also documents the running of Cuala Press, a Yeats family business.
Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.