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A Shelter In Camden Town Under A Brewery : Christmas Eve, 1940 (watercolour)

A Shelter In Camden Town Under A Brewery : Christmas Eve, 1940 (watercolour)
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IWM7352062
Image title
A Shelter In Camden Town Under A Brewery : Christmas Eve, 1940 (watercolour)
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Artist
Lehmann, Olga (1914-2001) / English
Location
Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Medium
watercolour
Date
1940 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions
28.2x26 cms
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Creator: Lehmann, Olga (1912-2001) A high vaulted tunnel with a cart in the foreground, shelters people lit by candles, London, 1940. Olga Lehmann was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee as a British official war artist. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and worked in the fields of mural painting and portraiture. During the Second World War she designed murals for restaurants, hotels and the Ministry of Aircraft Production, as well as illustrations for the Radio Times. After the war, she worked as a set designer for Hollywood film productions.

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© Imperial War Museums / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
20th century / England / United Kingdom / Europe / 1940s / art / bombardment / colour / drawing / Second World War (1939-1945) / war / suffering / crowd / London / Christmas / night / population / tunnel / watercolour / war effort / air battle / battle / mzdrawing / illustration / darkness / the Blitz

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