Amy Drucker

Amy Julia Drucker (1873 – November 1951) was a British artist and educator of Jewish descent.

The daughter of a wine merchant from Germany, she was born in London and grew up in Hampstead. She was educated at St John's Wood Art School and the Lambeth School of Art. She had a studio in Bloomsbury. Besides paintings, watercolours and pastels, she also produced lithographs, miniatures, woodcut prints, drawings and etchings. She exhibited her work regularly from 1888 to 1939 at various venues in England, including the Royal Academy of Arts.[1][2][3]

She travelled to the Far East, South America, Palestine and Abyssinia. During World War I, she served in the Women's Land Army. During World War II, she worked in a factory and as a night watchman.[1]

After her death, two portfolios of her work were presented at the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 1952, an exhibit of her work was shown at the Ben Uri Gallery; a prize was awarded in two consecutive years in her name to a promising young Jewish artist.[1]

Some of her better-known paintings include:

  • The Aliens
  • Wentworth Street at Night
  • Arab Water Carriers[2]
  • For He had Great Possessions[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "For He had Great Possessions". Ben Uri: 100 Years in London.
  2. 1 2 Rubinstein, W; Jolles, Michael A (2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. p. 1472. ISBN 0230304664.
  3. ↑ Walsh, Michael J K (2010). London, Modernism, and 1914. p. 145. ISBN 0521195802.
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