Anna Zinkeisen (1901 – 1976)

Honourable Artillery Company: Armed Strength For Peace

 

Original vintage poster

75 x 51 cm

“”ARMED STRENGTH FOR PEACE”: Apply to The Regimental Adjutant, Armoury House, E.C.I.”

Anna Zinkeisen won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools in 1916, focusing on sculpture and exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1919. She was awarded the Landseer Award in 1920 and 1921, and went on to become an esteemed portrait artist, often of society ladies. She produced a series of posters for London Transport in the inter-war period. During the Second World War, Zinkeisen became a nurse, and was profoundly affected by the suffering she saw during her time working in St Mary’s Hospital. This is arguably the point at which she and her sister Doris reached the pinnacle of their careers, producing some of the finest and most affecting depictions of the world at war made during this period.

Condition: generally very good, slight edge wear top right and one soft crease into the tank.

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