Jessie Aitken [SEP] date of death
Jessie Aitken
Jessie Aitken (14 April 1867–18 January 1934) was a New Zealand community worker and political activist. She was born in Ecclesmachan, West Lothian, Scotland on 14 April 1867.
she became part of the circle of artists associated with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and a member of the informal group of artists known as "The Immortals", which also included Agnes Raeburn, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Jessie Newbery, Ruby Pickering, Katharine Cameron, Jessie Keppie and Frances McNair. Aitken also became a leading member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists and won that Society's Lauder Prize in both 1928 and 1937. Aitken was also a metalworker and a member of the Scottish Guild of Handicraft..
Aitken often painted urban