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Collage, 22 x 13 3/4 in. (56 x 35 cm.)
Size:
Height – 56cm x Width – 35cm
Provenance: The Artist’s son, James Monnington.
This collage is
likely to date from Evelyn’s time at the Royal College of Art where she
trained in the 1930’s.¬† After this she worked for Heals and other
designers.  During the War she worked with the camouflage department
(where she first met Tom Monnington, who she married in 1948) and later 
as a Canal Boatwoman.   Her war dairies from 1943 have been  serialized
in Canals Rivers & Boats Magazine.
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Evelyn Janet Hunt [also known as Evelyn Janet Monnington] was born on 12 May 1914 and trained as an artist at the
Royal College of Art in London.
Heals department store in London.
[later Sir Walter Thomas Monnington] in the Camouflage Department of the War Ministry.
served as a volunteer canal ‘boatman’ for the Department of War Transport.
she married Monnington. She died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent in January 2001.
