JESSIE M. MCGEEHAN
(British 1872-1961)

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Jessie Mary McGeehan was born in Airdrie, Scotland on August 24th 1872. She was a landscape and figurative painter and exhibited both oils and watercolours. She primarily created works depicting river and harbor scenes with fisherfolk and brightly coloured shipping.

In 1888, at the age of 15, McGeehan moved to Glasgow and began her studies at the Glasgow School of Art, and then continued her studies in Paris. In 1897, she exhibited two paintings, “Un Bon Coin” and “Flower Sellers, Paris” at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts. Her work was also shown at the Royal Academy of London in 1901. She had a studio of her own at 134 Bath Street, in Glasgow, where she devoted her time largely to commission work. It is believed that she may have spent time in the Netherlands, as many of her paintings between 1906 and 1913 feature Dutch subjects. She did not continue exhibiting her works after 1929.

McGeehan also designed glass mosaics, and was responsible for the creation of the glass mosaic depicting the Stations of the Cross in the Aloysius Church, in Garnethill, Glasgow. Another of her glass mosaics can be found at St. Mary’s, a Jesuit Church in St. Helens, Lancashire.

McGeehan passed away in 1962 in her home and studio at 152a Renfrew Street. McGeehan’s painting, portraying her sister sculpting a small head of a child, can be found in the North Lanarkshire Council Museum’s collection.