Evelyn Dunbar
War and Country
Description:... Drawing extensively on interviews with family members, correspondence and newly located archives, the author focusses on Dunbar's career from illustrator and mural painter, to war artist and teacher at The Ruskin School of Drawing and of Fine Art, Oxford. Evelyn Dunabr was a fine draughtswoman and her powers of observation and wry, gentle wit were well used in her illustrative work. Each chapter explores a different period in her life, revealing the variety of her work and demonstrating her profound understanding and love of the countryside. Evelyn Dunbar was part of a neglected generation of artists whose lives are now being recognised and reappraised. She did much to add to the 'practice and spirit of English art' and deserves to be placed alongside her contemporaries Edward Bawden, Barnet Freedman, Charles Mahoney, John Nash, Eric Ravilious and Stanley Spencer.
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