Janet Aitken

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Artist group "The Immortals" around 1894
Artist group “The Immortals” around 1894 - back: Frances MacDonald; middle row (from left to right): Margaret Macdonald, Katharine Cameron, Janet Aitken , Agnes Raeburn, Jessie Keppie, John Keppie; Front row (from left to right): Herbert McNair, Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Janet Macdonald Aitken (* 1873 in Glasgow , † 1941 in Troon , Scotland ) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter . Jude Burkhauser called her one of the leading exponents of the Glasgow style .

life and work

Aitken was born in Glasgow . Her father, Robert Thomson Aitken, was a well-respected printer and lithographer. From 1887 to 1902 she studied at the Glasgow School of Art before continuing her studies at the Academie Colarossi in Paris. After some time in Spain she returned to Glasgow and became part of the artist group around Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the so-called "Immortals", which also included Agnes Raeburn, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh , Jessie Newbery, Ruby Pickering, Katharine Cameron, Jessie Keppie and Frances McNair belonged. Aitken was also a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists and won the Lauder Prize in 1928 and 1937. Aitken also worked with metal and was a member of the Scottish Guild of Handicraft.

Aitken mainly painted urban scenes and historical buildings in oil and water color. Some of her black and white drawings of Glasgow street scenes were printed on postcards. Her work has been exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts . In the early 1930s she exhibited mostly portraits in the Aberdeen Arts Society. In 1930 40 landscape paintings by her were exhibited in the Beaux Arts Gallery. In 1942, the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists held a memorial exhibition for Aitken, Kate Wylie and Elma Story.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jew Burkhauser: Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design 1880-1920 . Canongate, 1990.
  2. ^ A b Grant M. Waters: Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950 . Eastbourne Fine Art, 1975.
  3. ^ A b Paul Harris & Julian Halsby: The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present . Canongate, 1990.
  4. ^ Aitken, Janet Macdonald - Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ GSA The Magazine: People Page. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ Peter JM McEwan: The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture . Antique Collectors' Club, 1994.
personal data
SURNAME Aitken, Janet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aitken, Janet Macdonald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish portrait and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH 1941
Place of death Troon , Scotland