Full Name Kitty Wilmer Known for Landscapes | Nationality Irish | |
Born 1910 India Died 1982, Dublin, Republic of Ireland | ||
Kitty Wilmer O'Brien (1910–1982) was an Irish oil and watercolour landscape artist.
Life
Kitty Wilmer was born in India in 1910. 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. She was trained by Lilian Davidson who was working out of her studio in Earlsfort terrace in Dublin. She won the Taylor Scholarship in 1933 which sent her to the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
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. They had at least one son, Anthony, who is also an artist.
In the period from the 1940s and 1950s O’Brien exhibited with Roseleen Ganley in Dublin 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. She was president of the Watercolour Society from 1962 to 1981.