Vulcan Park War Memorial 1918–1928
Alexander Carrick (1882–1966) and Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams (1877–1934) and Robert Stodart Lorimer (1864–1929)
Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams [also known as Mrs Morris Meredith Williams; Gertrude Alice Williams; and as Gertrude A. Williams] was born Gertrude Alice Williams in Liverpool, England in 1877. During her youth she received private lessons in painting from Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847–1900), Professor of Fine Arts at Liverpool University College. She subsequently studied under Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933) at the School of Architecture and Applied Art in Liverpool from c.1898 to 1900. In 1901, with the benefit of a Liverpool City Council Travelling Scholarship, she moved to Paris where she attended the Académie Colarossi. While in Paris she met the painter and illustrator Morris Meredith Williams (1881-1973) whom she married in 1906.
Gertrude Williams exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh from 1907 to 1929. She also exhibited at the Royal Academy and Alpine Club Gallery in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Leeds City Art Gallery; and at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in Edinburgh. She was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (ARSBS) in 1928. She also participated in the exhibitions of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1910, 1912 and 1916.
She often collaborated with the architect Robert S. Lorimer on projects, including three major war memorials: for Queenstown in South Africa (1924), Paisley (1924), and the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh (1927). She also worked on memorials for churches and chapels. She died at her home in Okehampton, Devon on 3 March 1934.
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