Kitty Wilmer O'Brien

Kitty Wilmer O'Brien
Born Pamela Kathleen Helen Wilmer
7 August 1910
India
Died 1982
Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Known for Landscapes

Kitty Wilmer O'Brien (7 August 1910–1982) was an Irish oil and watercolour landscape artist.[1]

Life

Kitty Wilmer was born in India on 7 August 1910 to Major Harold Gordon Wilmer and Alice Violet McEntire. Her father was killed at Gallipoli when she was 4. She had a younger brother, Harold, who followed in the family military tradition. He was killed in 1942.[2][3] She learned her skills in the Royal Hibernian Academy schools in Dublin, starting in 1926, where she won a number of awards for her art.[4] She was trained by Lilian Davidson who was working out of her studio in Earlsfort terrace in Dublin.[5] She won the Taylor Scholarship in 1933 which sent her to the Slade School of Fine Art in London.[4]

In 1936 she married Dr Brendan O’Brien, a Dublin surgeon and son of Dermod O'Brien. She and her husband settled in Dublin after working abroad for a few years.[4] They had two sons; Dermod[6] and Anthony, who is also an artist.[1] Another artistic relative was Geraldine O'Brien.

In the period from the 1940s and 1950s O’Brien exhibited with Roseleen Ganly in Dublin[7] as well as submitting to the Society of Dublin Painters, Royal Hibernian Academy and the Water Colour Society of Ireland. O'Brien was elected member of Royal Hibernian Academy in 1976.[3] She was president of the Watercolour Society from 1962 to 1981.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Aine O'Brien (9 September 2014). "INTERVIEW: Poems, paintings and passion". Mayo News.
  2. ↑ "The Peerage".
  3. 1 2 "Kitty Wilmer O'Brien". National Visual Arts Library.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Kitty Wilmer O'Brien RHA PWCSI".
  5. ↑ "Biography of Lilian Davidson".
  6. ↑ "Dermod Wilmer O'Brien". The Peerage. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Auction archive Roseleen Ganly".


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