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Geddes, Wilhelmina Margaret [1887-1955. Ireland. Stained Glass Designer/Illustrator/Embroiderer]

 

Wilhelmina Margaret Geddes was born in Drumreilly, County Leitrim, Ireland on 25… subscribers only


Detail from Christ Calling Peter and Andrew, 1946, by Wilhelmina Geddes for Church of St Peter, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales

Detail from Christ Calling Peter and Andrew, 1946, by Wilhelmina Geddes for Church of St Peter, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales


Bibliography

1. Armstrong, Barrie and Armstrong, Wendy. The Arts and Crafts movement in the North East of England: a handbook. Wetherby, England: Oblong Creative Ltd., 2013

2. Armstrong, Barrie and Armstrong, Wendy. The Arts and Crafts movement in the North West of England: a handbook. Wetherby, England: Oblong Creative Ltd., 2006

3. Bowe, Niccola Gordon. ‘Wilhelmina Geddes, Harry Clarke, and their part in the Arts and Crafts Mmvement in Ireland’ The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts Vol. 8, Spring, 1988, pp. 58-79

4. Bowe, Nicola Gordon and Cumming, Elizabeth. The Arts and Crafts movements in Dublin & Edinburgh 1885-1925 Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1998 [ISBN 0-7165-2579-8]

5. Bowe, Nicola Gordon. Centenary exhibition of Wilhelmina Geddes, 1887-1955. Belfast: Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1987

6. Bowe, Nicola Gordon. Wilhelmina Geddes: mind, body and spirit in stained glass. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015

7. Bowe, Nicola Gordon. ‘A forgotten masterpiece: The Fate of the Children of Lir’ Irish Arts Review Spring 2007 pp.78-85 [Describes the history of the commissioning of a “little-known gem” at the Uster Museum by Wilhelmina Geddes]

8. Bowe, Nicola Gordon. ‘Fallen sons and warrior angels’ Irish Arts Review Spring 2015 pp.119-121 [Discusses some little-known war memorial windows by Wilhelmina Geddes]

9. Bowe, Nicola Gordon. ‘The Irish Arts and Crafts movement’. GPA Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1990-1991 pp. 172-185. [The author traces Ireland’s move towards a national expression in the Arts and Crafts field. Artists whose work is discussed in the article include Harry Clarke and Wilhelmina Geddes]

10. Bowe, Nicola Gordon. ‘Wilhelmina Geddes (1887-1955), stained glass designer'in Women Designing: Redefining Design in Britain between the Wars. Edited by Jill Seddon and Suzette Worden. Brighton: University of Brighton, 1994 pp. 64-70. ISBN 187 1966 42 6

11. Bowe, Nicola Gordon; Caron, David; and Wynne, Michael. Gazetteer of Irish stained glass : the works of Harry Clarke and the artists of an túr gloine (The tower of glass) and artists of the succeeding generations to the present day. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, revised edition, 2021

12. Brown, Shirley Anne. ‘Wilhelmina Geddes' Ottawa Window’. Irish Arts Review Yearbook Vol.10, 1994, pp.181-188

13. Cormack, Peter. Arts & Crafts stained glass New Haven, Connecticut:Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, 2015

14. Dictionary of women artists volume 1, A-I, edited by Delia Gaze Chicago, Illinois: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997 [Contains an essay on Wilhelmina Geddes by Nicola Gordon Bowe. pp.572-575]

15. Larmour, Paul. The Arts & Crafts movement in Ireland Belfast: Friar’s Bush Press, 1992 [ISBN 0 94682 53 8]

16. White, James and Wynne, Michael. Irish stained glass. A catalogue of stained glass windows by Irish artists of the twentieth century. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1963

17. Women stained glass artists of the Arts and Crafts movement London: London Borough of Waltham Forest Libraries & Arts Dept., 1985 [Catalogue of an exhibition at William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, London]

Weblinks

Anne Hailes. ‘Wilhelmina Geddes: Window on a remarkable life’ The Irish Times 4 January 2016 

Artist Biographies [Subscription service] 

Frank McNally. ‘Through a glass, colourfully – An Irishman’s Diary about Wilhelmina Geddes’ The Irish Times 6 November 2015 

Gloine - Stained glass in the Church of Ireland 

Jasmine Allen. ‘Wilhelmina Geddes: Life and Work, by Nicola Gordon Bowe’ Times Higher Education 17 December 2015 

Mayo Stained Glass [archived] 

Nicola Gordon Bowe, ‘Geddes, Wilhelmina Margaret (1887–1955)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [Subscription service] 

Stained Glass from Welsh Churches 

Stained Glass in Mayo 

Stained Glass in Wales 

Victoria & Albert Museum, London 

Wikipedia 

‘Belfast artist who created some of the city's most beautiful stained glass windows recognised in new book’ Belfast Telegraph 18 November 2015 

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