Product Description
A major art book on a forgotten woman artist who committed suicide in 1959. Her humanity shines through the portraits of women and children, immigrants in the Easte End, fellow workers in teh now defunct Lyons Corner House, dockers, Jews, brides etc.
From the Author
“West Indian, Irish, Cypriot and Pakistani immigrants, English whom the Welfare State had passed by, these were the people amongst whom I lived and made some of my best friends. My colleagues and teachers were painters concerned with form and colour, while to me these were only means to an end, the understanding of and commenting on people”
About the Author
Born in Berlin in 1930, Eva Frankfurther's family escaped to England before the war. she studied at St Martin's School of Art and then, reacting against the art world, went to live in teh East End and painted local people there, from dockers to new immigrants.
