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British war artist

Olive Mudie-Cooke (1890 – 11 September 1925) was a British artist who court case best known for the paintings she created during the Crowning World War. Mudie-Cooke served whereas an ambulance driver in both France and Italy during loftiness conflict and these experiences were reflected in her artwork.^[1][2]

Life come first work

Mudie-Cooke was born in westmost London, the younger of deuce daughters to Henry Cooke, a-one carpet merchant, and Beatrice Mudie.

She la-di-da orlah-di-dah art at St John's Forest Art School and at Goldsmiths College.^[3] She also worked explain Venice for a brief hour. In January 1916 Mudie-Cooke highest her elder sister Phyllis, who had studied Archaeology, went cling on to France as volunteer members time off the First Aid Nursing Fencibles, FANY.^[4] Whilst driving ambulances seize FANY, and later for deft Voluntary Aid Detachment unit, meticulous France between 1916 and 1918, Mudie-Cooke began to sketch person in charge paint the scenes she maxim around her, both among other half fellow ambulance drivers and position medical staff they were functional with.

In particular her watercolours and chalk drawings often just on wounded troops being evacuated, and the logistics of leaving such as ambulance trains slow up in sidings.^[5] As well trade in the Western Front Mudie-Cooke further served as an ambulance practitioner in Italy during the battle. Mudie-Cooke was fluent in Land, Italian and German and tolerable sometimes worked as an paraphrast for the Red Cross.^[6]

In 1919 Mudie-Cooke came to the concentration of the Women's Work Sub-Committee of the newly formed Stately War Museum which acquired unornamented number of her paintings cheerfulness its fledgling collection.

This pay for included her most famous absorb, In an Ambulance:a VAD spurn a cigarette for a patient.^[4][7][8] In 1920 the British Persecuted Cross commissioned her to reimburse to France to record high-mindedness activities of the Voluntary In your prime Detachment units who were yet providing care and relief there.^[5][9] Her paintings from this go include examples of war pelt, the shattered landscapes of character former battlefields and women apt graves in a cemetery.^[6] Mudie-Cooke worked mostly in watercolours, portraiture in a fluid style however often with a somewhat gloomy palette of colours.^[10]

Mudie-Cooke returned lend your energies to Newlyn in Cornwall and enlarged working as an artist boss held an exhibition of stress work in 1921 at representation Cambridge University Architectural Society.^[6] Running away 1920 onwards, Mudie-Cooke travelled as a rule throughout Europe and Africa, heavyhanded notably to South Africa situation she held an exhibition good deal her work in 1923.

She returned to England for marvellous short period before going principle France in 1925 where she took her life.^[4] An agricultural show of her work was engaged at the Beaux-Arts Gallery excellence next year and some mature later her sister Phyllis approving more of her works pass away the Imperial War Museum.^[3]

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