Anne Butler Yeats 

Coole Park - Oil

Anne Butler Yeats, was born in Dublin in 1919, into one of the best known artistic families of Irish culture. She studied art at the Royal Hibernian Academy and went on to become the chief stage designer for the Abbey Theatre. In the 1940s she returned to painting and took a course at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, now known as the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), under the artist Sean Keating.
 
In 1947 she was elected to the Committee of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and from the late 1940s onwards her artwork was widely exhibited both at home and abroad, with shows in America, Germany, and the Netherlands, along with the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Taispeantas an Oireachtas. She took part in solo exhibitions at prestigious galleries and venues such as the New Gallery, Belfast; the Dawson Gallery, Dublin; the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin; the Taylor Galleries, Dublin; and the University of Winnipeg, Canada.
 

Anne Yeats died in 2001. The following year, a memorial exhibition of 20 paintings and drawings, including sketchbooks donated by her brother Michael Yeats, was held at the National Gallery of Ireland. She donated her collection of Jack B. Yeats' sketch books to the National Gallery of Ireland, enabling the creation of the Yeats Museum within the Gallery. Her paintings are held in private and public collections worldwide, including, The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin; The Ulster Museum, Belfast; Trinity College, Dublin; Sligo County Gallery, Sligo and The Arts Council of Ireland.