Isobel Heath
Machine Age, c. 1940
Signed and inscribed
Watercolour
10.25 x inches
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Private collection
Note: Isobel Atterbury Heath studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris and later at the St Ives School of Painting in the 1930s. Whiltst in Paris she was influenced by cubism. During WWII, she was commissioned by the Ministry of Information to paint workers in munitions factories and at a camouflage factory in St Ives, which gave her the opportunity to showcase how women were employed outside the perceived female wartime roles of nurses and care-givers.