Listed Canadian Artist: 1903-1992
Oil on Board - Signed by the Artistl
Titled Verso: "A Bit of Canadiana"
Size - h: 8 in. by w: 6 in.
Lillian Jean McGeoch [nee: McKittrick] was born in Sundrich, Ontario January 1903. Lillian studied under John Beatty and George Reid at the Ontario College of Art. She also studied art in Nova Scotia and Rockport Maine. She won two scholarships in succession while studying under Alfred Howell at Toronto Central Technical School.
In April 1926 McKittrick married Rae McGeoch, a sales manager in Toronto. She worked as a freelance commercial artist and taught art.
She mainly painted oil and tempera landscapes and still life studies. She also worked with metal, clay and wood. McGeoch had solo exhibitions in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Women’s Art Association in Toronto the Richview Library, Toronto and the Douglas Art Gallery, Toronto.
Lillian passed away in 1992.
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