she is going to say that she doesn't wish to have her name on the programme as a designer of the setting." This could be the main reason why her name is not on many productions that she had worked on. Anne Yeats also designed the first play of her uncle Jack Yeats to receive professional production, Harlequin's Positions. In 1939 she was promoted to head of design at the Abbey until her departure in May 1941. In 1939 it was commented that her designs were "getting arty" and not in keeping with style of the Abbey. 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 and stage-managed for The Peacock, The Cork Opera House, The Olympia, The Gaiety Theatre, the Austin Clarke Lyric Theatre, the Abbey Theatre and Player's Theatre. Among the work Yeats is credited with in the Abbey Theatre, she is also recorded as having worked on 5 productions in the Peacock Theatre with the Theatre Company: Alarm Among the Clerks (1937) The Phoenix (1937) Harlequin's Positions (1939) The Wild Cat (1940) Cavaliero (The Life of a Hawk) (1948) Painting career She chose to move towards painting full-time beginning a brief study at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1941. She experimented with watercolour and wax. She had a touching naive expressionist style and was interested in representing domestic humanity. She designed many of the covers for the books of Irish-language publisher Sáirséal agus Dill over a twenty-year period from 1958. She did illustrations for books by Denis Devlin, Thomas Kinsella and Louis MacNeice, and worked with many young designers, such as Louis LeBrocquy. Death and legacy The Royal Hibernian Academy held a retrospective of her work in 1995, as did the National 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. Work in collections The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin The Ulster Museum, Belfast Trinity College, Dublin Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo The Arts Council of Ireland References Further reading David Scott (1989), The modern art collection, Trinity College, Dublin. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press, Martyn Anglesea