Anne Butler Yeats (26 February 1919 – 4 July 2001) was an Irish painter, costume and stage designer.
[1] Born in Dublin on 26 February 1919, her birth was commemorated by her father with the poem A Prayer for My Daughter.
[2] Anne Yeats spent her first 3 years between Ballylee, County Galway, and Oxford before her family moved to 82 Merrion Square, Dublin in 1922.
In 1923 her Aunt Elizabeth "Lolly" gave her brush drawing lessons which aided her in winning first prize in the RDS National Art competition for children under eight years old in 1925 and 1926.
[3] She trained in the Royal Hibernian Academy school from 1933 to 1936, and worked as a stage designer with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
When working on Purgatory, Hugh Hunt wanted to have a moon on the backcloth of the production but Anne Yeats refused.
[5] One of her last designs was her father's last play, The Death of Cuchulain for the Lyric Theatre on the Abbey stage, in 1949.
She designed many of the covers for the books of Irish-language publisher Sáirséal agus Dill over a twenty-year period from 1958.