Olive mudie cooke biography of alberta

Olive Mudie-Cooke

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Olive Mudie-Cooke ( September ) was a British artist who is best known for the paintings she created during the First World War. Mudie-Cooke served as an ambulance driver in both France and Italy during the conflict and these experiences were reflected in her artwork.

Mudie-Cooke was born in west London, the younger of two daughters to Henry Cooke, a carpet merchant, and Beatrice Mudie. She studied art at St John's Wood Art School and at Goldsmith's College. She also worked in Venice for a brief period. In January Mudie-Cooke and her elder sister Phyllis, who had studied Archaeology, went to France as volunteer members of the First Aid Nursing Yoemanry.

Olive mudie cooke biography of alberta Retrieved 25 August The first official war-artists' scheme was set up by the British government in , mainly for propaganda purposes and for memorialising the nation's war effort. Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter. A host of artists were commissioned for this purpose, though only four women compared to 47 men, and of these four, three had their work rejected, while one did not take up the commission, so there was effectively no "official" female representation.

Whilst driving ambulances for FANY in France between and , Mudie-Cooke began to sketch and paint the scenes she saw around her, both among her fellow ambulance drivers and the medical staff they were working with. In particular her watercolours and chalk drawings often focused on wounded troops being evacuated, and the logistics of evacuation such as ambulance trains waiting in sidings.

As well as the Western Front Mudie-Cooke also served as an ambulance driver in Italy during the war. In Mudie-Cooke came to the attention of the Women's Work Sub-Committee of the newly formed Imperial War Museum which acquired a number of her paintings for its fledgling collection. This purchase included her most famous picture, In an Ambulance: a VAD lighting a cigarette for a patient.

In the British Red Cross commissioned her to return to France to record the activities of the Voluntary Aid Detachment units who were still providing care and relief there.

Olive mudie cooke biography of alberta brown Great War London. Mudie-Cooke was born in west London, the younger of two daughters to Henry Cooke, a carpet merchant, and Beatrice Mudie. One painting, showing munitions girls leaving work, was produced at the request of the Ministry of Information's British War Memorials Committee in Drawing sensitive subjects or places required a permit — which Abbess did not have.

Her paintings from this visit include examples of war damage and the shattered landscapes of the former battlefields.
After , Olive Mudie-Cooke travelled extensively throughout Europe and Africa, most notably to South Africa where she held an exhibition of her work in She returned to England for a short period before going to France in where she took her life.

An exhibition of her work was held at the Beaux-Arts Gallery the next year and some years later her sister Phyllis donated more of her works to the Imperial War Museum.

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