Forthcoming

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Design for personal correspondence

SKU: 9002
Pen and ink
8 x 6¼ in. (20.3 x 15.9 cm)
Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 20.3cm x Width – 15.9cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
Roger Folley; Alasdair Dunbar; Hammer Mill Oast Collection

Dunbar often illustrated her personal letters lavishly, weaving her text around her drawing. Here various flowers including a tulip, a rose and a sunflower grow out of the same stem. In known examples, to (for instance) fellow artists Charles Mahoney, Allan Gwynne-Jones and Edward Bawden, Dunbar used water colour to enhance her effect.

We are grateful to Christopher Campbell-Howes for assistance.

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THE ARTIST

Evelyn Dunbar
Evelyn
Dunbar
1906 - 1960

Evelyn Dunbar studied at Rochester School of Art, Chelsea School
of Art (1927) and the Royal College of Art (1929’33). She painted
murals from 1933 -36 at Brockley School, a collaboration with her
RCA tutor (and lover) Cyril Mahoney (1903’1968) and in 1937
they wrote and illustrated together Gardeners’ Choice. 

In 1938 she set up the Blue Gallery in Rochester, exhibiting her
own work alongside that of Edward Bawden (1903’1989) and
Barnett Freedman (1901’1958) and others. In 1940 she was
appointed an official war artist, becoming the only woman (amongst
36 men) to be given a full time salaried position by the WAAC. 

She held her only solo exhibition at Withersdane, Wye, Kent
in 1953, although the WAAC included numerous pieces in touring
exhibitions ranging from Aberdeen Art Gallery to MOMA, New York. 

A posthumous exhibition was held in 2006 at St Barbe
Museum and Art Gallery, and in 2015 Liss Llewellyn mounted a
major retrospective of her recently rediscovered studio at Pallant
House Gallery. 

MORE PICTURES BY ARTIST

SKU: 11643

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Marjorie Reading, 1931

£875.00

SKU: 11642

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Woman Sewing c.1925

£295.00

SKU: 11641

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Young Woman Reading a Letter, c. 1927

£475.00

SKU: 11636

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sketches of clarinets

£280.00

SKU: 11633

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Cat Sketches, c.1926

£275.00

SKU: 11632

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The Law-abiding Citizen! c.1927

£745.00

SKU: 11631

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sketch for Bedtime, c.1926

£425.00

SKU: 11630

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Story Time, c.1926

£750.00

SKU: 11628

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Some Games…c. 1958

£900.00

SKU: 11627

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Fancy Dress Ball, 1926

£1,325.00

SKU: 11626

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

‘Saturnalia’ c.1926

£1,950.00

SKU: 11625

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Service! c. 1924

£255.00

SKU: 11623

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Laddie, The Intruder, c.1923

£900.00

SKU: 11622

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

What fools…c.1926

£685.00

SKU: 11621

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Portrait of William Dunbar, 1922

£895.00

SKU: 11620

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Woman in Red, c. 1927

£475.00

Reserved
SKU: 11617

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Girl looking upwards, c.1927
SKU: 11615

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Unidentified Woman with Parrot Brooch, c. 1927

£485.00

SKU: 11614

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Seated Nude Study

£325.00

SKU: 11613

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Reclining Male Nude Study

£490.00

SKU: 11612

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Standing Nude Studies

£350.00

SKU: 11611

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Head and Shoulders Male Study

£475.00

SKU: 11609

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

April Fool!

£480.00

SKU: 11522

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Children Playing

£650.00

SKU: 11524

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Child Playing the Banjo

£375.00

SKU: 11525

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study related to Princess Caroline

£250.00

SKU: 11527

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Unidentified Etching

£350.00

SKU: 11508

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sacred Music on Sundays’

£275.00

SKU: 11510

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study 2 related to Princess Caroline

£775.00

SKU: 11511

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Landscape 1

£700.00

SKU: 11512

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Landscape 2

£975.00

SKU: 11513

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Artist Sketching

£700.00

SKU: 11514

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

View over fields

£975.00

SKU: 11515

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

View across farm buildings

£1,675.00

SKU: 11517

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Morning Tasks

£550.00

SKU: 11519

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study for Children and Hands

£375.00

SKU: 11521

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The Young Artist, circa 1920

£760.00

SKU: 11495

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Laddie, the family dog, asleep on a chair

£900.00

SKU: 11497

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Florence Dunbar Peeling Apples c.1922

£300.00

SKU: 11499

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Miss T. and begging dog!

£175.00

SKU: 11501

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Christmas Tree in a pot

£350.00

SKU: 11502

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Figure Sitting

£350.00

SKU: 11506

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Various sketches, mostly of the dancing figure of Pomona for a Christmas card design for 1947

£575.00

SKU: 11494

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Unidentified study, c.1956

£775.00

SKU: 11468

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Seated Nude Study 2

£350.00

SKU: 11469

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Nude Study of Woman Sitting

£600.00

SKU: 11474

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Nude Study with Hand on Hip

£200.00

SKU: 11475

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Seated Nude Study 1

£275.00

SKU: 11478

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Figure study for the personification of April for Country Life 1938 Gardener’s Diary, 1937

£580.00

SKU: 11480

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Portrait

£375.00

SKU: 11482

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study for Seated Woman reading

£250.00

SKU: 11483

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study for Seated Woman

£250.00

SKU: 11484

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Flower Show Illustrations

£135.00

SKU: 11453

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Farming Sketch

£375.00

SKU: 11460

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Various Figure Studies including a Ballerina

£500.00

SKU: 11461

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Nude Study with artist at work

£350.00

SKU: 11462

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Nude Figure Studies

£300.00

SKU: 11464

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Chalk Nude Study with Sketching Figure in Foreground

£300.00

SKU: 11466

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sitting Nude Study with Umbrella

£200.00

SKU: 11449

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The Farming Year Poster

£500.00

SKU: 11452

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Farming Equipement 1

£365.00

SKU: 11443

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The horse gin

£325.00

SKU: 11444

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study for Farm Dictionary

£325.00

SKU: 11445

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Prune’

£300.00

SKU: 11100

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Royal College of Art Sketch Club Annual Summer Camp, 1930

£895.00

SKU: 11101

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Portrait of an Unidentified Woman

£970.00

SKU: 11103

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Pencil sketch for Portrait of an Airwoman, 1944

£1,500.00

SKU: 11104

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Seated Woman with Sleeping Dog

£1,500.00

SKU: 11095

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Portrait of an Unidentified Man, c.1925

£1,375.00

SKU: 11096

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Ring-a-ring-a-rosies

£795.00

SKU: 11086

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Trenching or double-digging, 1938

£525.00

SKU: 11088

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

A diagrammatic explanation of trenching or double digging

£1,750.00

SKU: 11089

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Cape Capers!

£350.00

SKU: 11081

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Moving into the Cedars, 1924

£1,375.00

SKU: 11074

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Nude standing with hand on thigh

£600.00

SKU: 11066

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Portrait sketch of an unidentified friend

£395.00

SKU: 11063

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sketch of Family Reading

£475.00

SKU: 11059

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Studies of Leaves, 1930’s

£1,475.00

SKU: 11050

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sketches of men and women involved in various activities, of unknown purpose or destination

£500.00

SKU: 11054

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The Artist at Her Drawing Board, mid-1920s

£450.00

SKU: 11049

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Potato Harvesting, 1954

£785.00

SKU: 10457

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The garden of The Elms, 1956

£1,950.00

SKU: 10456

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The Garden at the Elms, Winter, 1956

£1,950.00

SKU: 10241

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study for Gardener’s Choice: Himalayan Primrose with vignettes of a gardener to the margins

£975.00

SKU: 10243

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Life Class with full-length female nude in profile

£750.00

SKU: 10240

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sketches of children in various poses.

£1,100.00

SKU: 10226

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Preliminary study for Mercatora

£385.00

SKU: 10227

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sheet of African figures

£745.00

SKU: 10229

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sheet of figure studies with artist looking at herself in a handheld mirror

£800.00

SKU: 10224

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sheet of studies for Mercatora

£800.00

SKU: 10225

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Artist’s sister sewing

£1,400.00

SKU: 10216

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study for allegorical figure

£700.00

SKU: 10212

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Study of Charles Mahoney drawing plants

£520.00

SKU: 10214

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Faith, Hope and Charity, 1950

£400.00

SKU: 10204

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The artist’s sister sleeping in an armchair

£425.00

SKU: 10198

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sheet of non-contemporaneous studies, some with reference to images in Country Life 1938 Gardener’s Diary, others experimenting with Indian ink, c.1948

£975.00

SKU: 10187

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Studies of leaves and flowers.

£575.00

SKU: 10193

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Art school study of a lady seated on a Windsor chair

£950.00

SKU: 10194

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

Sheet of studies with figures gardening

£1,400.00

SKU: 10182

Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)

The Egg Thieves

£750.00