All the Colours of the Rainbow, 1942

Institutional Collection

Anna Zinkeisen (1901 - 1976)

All the Colours of the Rainbow, 1942

SKU: 11852

Signed lower right Oil on canvas

Size:
Height – 50.5cm
Width – 61.5cm

DESCRIPTION

Presentation:
framed

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THE ARTIST

Anna

Zinkeisen

1901 - 1976

Anna Zinkeisen studied drawing and anatomy before winning
a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools in 1916 to study
sculpture ‘ exhibiting at the RA in 1919 and winning the
Landseer Award in 1920 and 1921.

On leaving the RA, she worked with her sister Doris on
murals for the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth liners and
produced notable portraits. She also provided illustrations for
several books, including Sophy Cassmajor by Margery Sharp,
published in 1934.

While volunteering as a nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital during
the Second World War, Zinkeisen made pathological drawings of
war injuries for the Royal College of Surgeons. She was awarded
RDI in 1940. In her self-portrait of 1944 (held in the NPG),
clutching a bundle of paint brushes and wearing the bracelet of
the St John’s Ambulance Brigade, for which she was volunteering,
her gaze leaves the viewer in no doubt as to her professional status.