Background
Lillian Jean McKittrick was born in Sundridge, Ontario on 17 January 1903.
Lillian Jean McKittrick was born in Sundridge, Ontario on 17 January 1903.
McKittrick studied under John William Beatty and George Agnew Reid at the Ontario College of Artist She also studied art at the Portuguese Hope summer school, and with groups of artists in Toronto, Nova Scotia and Rockport, Maine.
Her parents were Edward James McKittrick and Ida Caroline Curran. The Review East.J. McKittrick was an Algoma clergyman. On 24 April 1926 McKittrick married Rae McGeoch, a sales manager in Toronto.
She worked as a freelance commercial artist and taught art
She mainly painted oil and tempera landscapes and still life studies. She also worked with metal, clay and wood.
McGeoch had solo exhibitions in Halifax, Nova Scotia (1950), the Toronto Lyceum Club (1957), the Women's Art Association, Toronto (1961), Richview Library, Toronto (1967, 1969), Newport Hotel, Clarkson, Mississauga (1968) and the Douglas Art Gallery, Toronto.