Papers from a day conference held on 23 April 2023
Evelyn Dunbar (1906-60) remains something of an enigma. Where she is known, it is for her role as the only female artist 'salaried' by Kenneth Clark's War Artists' Advisory Committee, which aimed to record wartime scenes for posterity and occasional propaganda purposes. Dunbar particularly excelled in depicting the role of women during wartime; on farms, in nursing, or keeping the home fires burning. A recurrent focus was on women working the land, which keyed into her deep affinity with gardening, the outdoors, and landscape. In response to a growing interest in Dunbar, this volume brings together four papers from a day conference at the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History that illuminate different aspects of her life and artistic practice.
Introduction
Thomas Dobson, Peter Forsaith and Daniel Reed
Scenes from Family Life: Early Promise in the Juvenilia of Evelyn Dunbar
Peter Vass
"All that is made is the work of God": Christian Science as Creed for Evelyn Dunbar and Her Contemporaries
Jan Cox
'With very keen understanding': Evelyn Dunbar and the War Artists' Advisory Committee
Claire Brenard
Alpha and Omega: Evelyn Dunbar's Return Ticket to Oxford
Christopher Campbell-Howes
Published by Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, October 2024
ISBN: 9798342662352 HB
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