Newly discovered work by Evelyn Dunbar
November 1 2011
Picture: Sim Fine Art
As a keen fan of wartime art, I'm grateful to Andrew Sim of Sim Fine Art for alerting me to a fine work by Evelyn Dunbar (1906-60), Britain's only salaried female war artist during the Second World War. The picture is called Girls Learning to Stook and Men Stooking, 1940, and was a commission to record Women's Land Army subjects. What a great picture.
To celebrate the rediscovery of this and other works by Dunbar, her biographer Dr Gill Clarke will be speaking at Persephone Books on 8th November at 6pm. Tickets, at £20, from 020 7242 9292.
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