Aniza McGeehan
Other names: Annie L. McGeehan (c.1891), Mrs Vincent Murphy (c.1901)
Born 1875 (Circa)
Active: 1891 - 1931
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor
Born and raised in Airdrie, Lanarkshire. She was the daughter of Patrick McGeehan (born c.1845 in Airdrie), a carriage hirer. Aniza's given name was Annie L. McGeehan, presumably Aniza was a nickname or family name. Her older sister, Jessie M. McGeehan (born c.1873 in Airdrie) became a painter and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1901. Aniza married Vincent Murphy (born c.1871 in Liverpool), a timber importer but continued to exhibit under her maiden name.
Locations
Address Rawyards Airdrie | View on map
1894 - 1903
In 1891 she and her family were living at 83 Black Street, Airdrie, Lanarkshire
Address Clovelly Waterloo Park Liverpool | View on map
1901 (Circa) - 1903 (Circa)
Address 24 Platt's Lane Hampstead London | View on map
1904 - 1906
In Graves her address is given as 'Clovelly', Platt's Lane, Hampstead
Address Ingle Lodge Blundellsands Liverpool | View on map
1928 - 1931
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1894 - 1930
Exhibited 11 times (an average of 2 works per show)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
Vincent Murphy, Esq. (cat. no. 1569, portrait bust in plaster, not for sale); Lawrence Connolly, Esq. (cat. no. 1572, plaster portrait bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1902 - 1931
Exhibited 7 times, one work each year (seven in all, chiefly portrait busts and heads though 'Innocence', statuette, cat. no. 1758 shown in 1904)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
Rt Rev. Monsignor Nugent (cat. no. 1412, portrait bust, bronze, illustrated on p. 123, not for sale).
Sources
1891 Scotland Census
2007
Parish: Airdrie; ED: 15; Page: 12; Line: 15; Roll CSSCT1891_313; Year: 1891
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 3445 folio 99 page 4
Citing this record
'Aniza McGeehan', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1250505206, accessed 30 Mar 2023]
