Olga Lehmann

1912-2001

Returning from the shelter, St John’s Wood

Ref: 632

Signed and dated  l.l.: Olga Lehmann/1941

Gouache and watercolour, 13 by 9 1/2 ins (33 by 24 cm)

 

Lehmann recalled that she executed this watercolour in 1941 near a shelter at St John’s Wood, where her husband was working nearby us an air raid warden. Lehmann had had a tough war, staying in London to weather the Blitz, where her studio flat in Hampstead had been destroyed by a bomb in the previous year causing the destruction of  most of her work. Nevertheless she flourished in the Post War years becoming a leading graphic and set designer for television and stage as well as an illustrator for Radio Times and other leading publications.  

 
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