Landscape artist Letitia Marion Hamilton died #OTD in 1964. She won a bronze medal for Ireland at the 1948 Olympics, the last time art was included. She exhibited 200+ paintings at the Royal Hibernian Academy. She was a founding member and later president of the Society of Dublin Painters
#IrishWomenArtists #Mastodaoine

📷 Oil painting of Slieve Donard, Co. Down c1935, fair use on Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Marion_Hamilton

Landscape artist Kitty Wilmer O'Brien RHA was born #OTD in 1910. Studied in Royal Hibernian Academy and won scholarship to attend Slade School. She exhibited annually in Irish Living Art Exhibition and Oireachtas Art Exhibition. Elected a member of Royal Hibernian Academy in 1976 and president of the Watercolour Society.

Her Wikipedia article has no 📷 :( so this is pinched from Devere's website: The Bridge, Westport, Co Mayo

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Wilmer_O'Brien

Artist and patron Sarah Purser died #OTD in 1943. A talented portrait artist, she was the first full female member of Royal Hibernian Academy. With money from investments, she founded An Túr Gloine, the stained glass studio that fostered Evie Hone, Wilhelmina Geddes and others
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📷 poster depicting Sarah Purser, part of Memento Civitatem exhibition by Alice Maher and Jamie Murphy in National Gallery of Ireland in 2022 (taken by the Wild Gees)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Purser

Artist Elizabeth Rivers was born #OTD in 1903 in England. She trained at the Royal Academy, then moved to the Aran Islands. She published books This Man and Stranger in Aran. She exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy, designed stained glass with Evie Hone and illustrated books. Her work is in the National Gallery of Ireland and other collections. "A genius mislaid"
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📷 fair use on Wikimedia Commons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Rivers

@TheWildGees Frömel's Moon and Hill from 1971 in the IMMA Collection is a beautiful work. The alabaster sculpture has been displayed close to the natural light from the Royal Hospital's large windows. Sunlight can slightly illuminate the semi-permeable circular indentation in the stone. Extraordinary. #GerdaFrömel #Sculpture #Alabaster #IrishArt #IrishWomenArtists #WomenArtists #Mastodaoine https://imma.ie/collection/moon-and-hill/

Artist Gerda Frömel died tragically #OTD in 1975 in a drowning accident aged 44. A Czech-born refugee, Gerda grew up in Germany and moved to Ireland in 1950s. She exhibited her sculpture here and worked in stained glass to critical acclaim and awards inc an Oireachtas medal
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📷 author unknown, fair use on Wikipedia; The Spear by Gerda Frömel in IMMA Ireland collection

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Fr%C3%B6mel

Sarah Cecilia Harrison died #OTD in 1941. A talented portrait artist, social reformer and suffragist, she was first woman elected to Dublin City Council in 1912. Helped set up Hugh Lane gallery. A grand niece of campaigner Mary Ann McCracken, escorted veteran suffragist Anna Haslam to vote in 1918 elections
#IrishWomenArtists #IrishWomensHistory #Mastodaoine

📷 self-portrait c1889, public domain on WikiCommons; poster by Alice Maher and Jamie Murphy, National Gallery 2022
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Cecilia_Harrison

English-born artist Elizabeth Rivers died in Dalkey #OTD in 1964. Trained at Royal Academy, she moved to Aran Islands and published book The Man. She exhibited at RHA Gallery, designed stained glass with Evie Hone, illustrated books for Tennyson, Seán Ó Faoileán and others. Work in Nat Gallery Ireland and other collections
#IrishWomenArtists #Mastodaoine

📷 1964, fair use on Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Rivers

Sculptor Melanie le Brocquy died #OTD in 2018 aged 99. Studied in NCAD, Royal Hibernian Academy. Specialised in female figures and forms. Widely respected but didn't create many works. Notably sculpted her artist brother Louis, her writer mother Sybil, Lady Gregory, St Patrick (in St Pat's Cathedral, Dublin), Oscar Wilde (Trinity College Dublin). There's no photo on her Wikipedia page :(

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📷 Irish Times, 2018
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/modernist-artist-who-captured-the-lives-of-ordinary-people-in-ordinary-situations-1.3578399

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Le_Brocquy

Portait artist Sarah Cecilia Harrison was born #OTD in 1863. She was also a social reformer, women's rights campaigner, and first woman elected to Dublin Corporation in 1912. She helped found the Hugh Lane gallery. Grand niece of Mary Joy McCracken, friend of the Haslams (who she painted)
#IrishWomenArtists #Mastodaoine

📷 self-portrait (1889), public domain on Wikimedia Commons; from an exhibition in National Gallery of Ireland by Alice Maher and Jamie Murphy (2022)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Cecilia_Harrison

Jazz and Blues singer Ottilie Patterson died #OTD in 2011. A trained classicial pianist, she performed vocals and recorded with the Chris Barber Jazz Band in 1950s and 60s. Recorded a solo LP and film soundtrack but retired in 1973 due to throat problems 😞 blue plaque in Comber, Co Down and BBC film 2023
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📷 Ottilie Patterson and the Chris Barber Jazz Band in the Netherlands in 1957, by Joop van Bilsen (ANEFO), CCO on Wikimedia Commons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottilie_Patterson

Stained glass artist Wilhelmina Geddes was born #OTD in 1887. Studied at Belfast School of Art. Mentored by Sarah Purser, An Túr Gloine. Her works are in Canada, New Zealand, Ypres, London, Belfast, Dublin inc. St Anne's Church, Dawson St, All Saints, Blackrock and National Gallery. Commemorated with blue plaque in Belfast, crater on Mercury named Geddes after her!

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📷 public domain; Bill Norman CC BY-SA 4.0 on Wikimedia Commons

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_Geddes

Sr Concepta Lynch, a remarkable artist whose life's work is a tiny chapel in Dun Laoghaire, died #OTD in 1939. Member of Dominican Order, taught music in St Mary's convent and decorated their Oratory of the Sacred Heart over many years. We came across her in Clodagh Finn's Through Her Eyes and have been trying to visit the oratory ever since! 3D tour available: https://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/heritage/3d-online-tours-%E2%80%93-heritage-home
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📷 unknown artist, fair use on Wikimedia Commons; arranqhenderson.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Concepta_Lynch

Artist Mainie Jellet was born in Dublin in 1897. Studied at Metropolitan School of Art. Among first abstract art shown in Ireland at Dublin Painters Exhibition 1923. Pioneered modern art in Ireland with pal Evie Hone and others. "The art of a nation is one of the ultimate facts by which its spiritual health is judged"
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainie_Jellett

📷 portrait of Mainie Jellett, artist unknown, fair use; Abstract Composition, 1935, by public domain, both Wikimedia Commons

Artist, writer and teacher Lilian Davison ARHA died #OTD in 1954. She painted portraits and landscapes, exhibited in Ireland, Paris, London and the 1928 Olympics. She wrote poetry, plays and short stories as Ulick Byrne. Founder member of Torch Theatre, used stage name Jennifer Maude. Taught drawing. Regular at Sarah Purser's 'Second Tuesdays'
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📷 The Turf Stack, Oil on board, Adam's Auctioneers 2017

There's no photo on Lilian's Wikipedia page 😞https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_Davidson

Artist Evie Hone RHA died #OTD in 1955. She was a pioneer of the Irish modern art movement with pal Mainie Jellet. Member of An Túr Gloine, the stained glass collective founded by Sarah Purser, and Royal Hibernian Academy
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📷 Four Green Fields stained glass window in Government Buildings, Dublin, SDCC libraries; portrait of Evie by Hilda Von Stockum (fair use on Wikipedia)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evie_Hone

Artist and poet Althea Gyles died #OTD in 1949. "Haughty" anglo-Irish family. Hung out with theosophists while going to art school. Illustrated Yeats' books. Affair with Alisteir Crowley, pals with Wilde. Often in poverty but kept creating throughout her life #IrishWomenArtists
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althea_Gyles
📷 only known image of Althea cropped from larger photo with Constance Markievicz; cover of The Secret Rose by WB Yeats, illustrated by Althea Gyles 1897 from Columbia.edu. Both Wikimedia Commons