1. Wilhelmina Geddes HRUA was an Irish stained glass artist who was an important figure within the Irish Arts and Crafts movement and the twentieth-century British stained glass revival.
22 Facts About Wilhelmina Geddes
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Wilhelmina Margaret Geddes was born on her maternal grandparent's farm at Drumreilly Cottage in Leitrim on 25 May 1887.
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Wilhelmina Geddes's father, a Methodist, who was born near his father's farm at Tandragee, County Armagh, emigrated to America as a young man, working as a labourer for the railway construction business.
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Wilhelmina Geddes learnt first how to draw from the school mistress in Ayrshire, where her father occasionally went shooting.
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Wilhelmina Geddes began her studies at Methodist College Belfast along with her three younger sisters.
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Wilhelmina Geddes later moved to the Belfast School of Art.
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Wilhelmina Geddes was encouraged by Rosamond Praeger, a sculptor from County Down, to continue with her studies.
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Wilhelmina Geddes was accepted as a student to study at the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University.
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Whilst still studying at the Belfast School of Art, Wilhelmina Geddes took part in the Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland's fourth exhibition.
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Wilhelmina Geddes contributed a watercolour illustration of a Ballad Seller with the Belfast Art Society in 1907.
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Wilhelmina Geddes was elected as an Associate of the Belfast Art Society's successor, the Ulster Academy of Arts, in 1933 before promotion to Honorary Academician in 1935.
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Wilhelmina Geddes joined Purser at the acclaimed stained glass workshop called An Tur Gloine in 1910.
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Wilhelmina Geddes's work was considered pioneering and represented a rejection of the Late Victorian approach.
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Wilhelmina Geddes created a new view of men in stained glass windows, portraying them with close-shaven crew cuts.
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Wilhelmina Geddes uses primitive colours in her Ottawa Window, the most prominent being yellow and black.
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Wilhelmina Geddes completed the entire window in Purser's glass works, Upper Pembroke Street in Dublin, Ireland.
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Wilhelmina Geddes wears a blue and white mantle, which he wraps around himself.
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Wilhelmina Geddes depicts the angel with a red halo and a stony-faced expression.
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Wilhelmina Geddes painted the figures on glass with an incredible clarity and rich use of colour.
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Wilhelmina Geddes herself declared that the window's subject was 'The Prophecy of Esaias' and the 'Calling of Peter and Andrew'.
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Wilhelmina Geddes died on 10 August 1955 in London of a pulmonary embolism.
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Wilhelmina Geddes was buried in Carnmoney Cemetery, County Antrim, along with her mother and sister Ethel.