Dorothy Annan (1900-1983), Sketch for Leamington Life, c. 1940
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Dorothy Annan (1900-1983), Sketch for Leamington Life, c. 1940
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Sketch for Leamingtonian Life, c. 1940
Gouache on hardboard
Given by Sebastian Tennant, 2021
Leamington Spa was one of the main bases for camouflage research during the Second World War and during the 1990s Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum began acquiring items relating to the work of camouflage staff.
During the Second World War, communal feeding stations, renamed British Restaurants by Winston Churchill, were set up throughout Britain to provide unrationed meals to those who had been bombed out, lost their ration books or been relocated for war work. In 1942, a group of artists, including Annan, painted a series of murals for Leamington’s British Restaurant to encourage a positive and uplifting atmosphere for customers. Annan’s sketch shows her design for the mural depicting a compressed townscape including Jephson Gardens and Royal Pump Rooms.