Artist and teacher from Birmingham who studied at Slade School of Fine Art and was a prize winner, 1913–15. After Army service in France in World War I he returned to the Slade, where he taught from 1919–57. Wilkie was a draughtsman in the Henry Tonks tradition who remains a rather shadowy figure. He was elected to NEAC in 1921, where he was a prolific exhibitor as he was at Redfern and Leicester Galleries, also showing at RA, Fine Art Society, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and elsewhere. The Slade held one of Wilkie’s pictures, of a waggon and horses. Lived in London.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)