Unity of Purpose in Peace

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Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901-1976)
Unity of Purpose in Peace
signed 'A. Zinkeisen' (lower right), signed again with initials and inscribed 'Unity of Purpose in Peace.A.Z.' (on the canvas over-lap)
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1944.

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Lot Essay

Anna Zinkeisen won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools from Harrow School of Art, and in 1920 and 1921 she won the Landseer Award. With her sister Doris, (see lot 232) Anna painted murals on the passenger liners The Queen Mary and The Queen Elizabeth. During the Second World War she worked in the mornings in the casualty ward at St Marys Hospital, Paddington, and painted in a disused operating theatre in the afternoons.

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