Zinkeisen

The bright young things who put women centre stage

Written by David Bownes, co-curator of Poster Girls – a century of art and design and Director of twentiethcenturyposters.com Of all the designers featured in the Poster Girls exhibition, none were as glamorous as the Scottish-born sisters, Doris and Anna Zinkeisen, whose precocious talent, beauty, and modernity propelled them into the centre of interwar London’s fashionable art scene. Typically described in …

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Anyone for cricket ? Were the ashes ever so artistic ?

Third post today : I’m getting a taste for this We talked sisters yesterday so moving from the impossibly elegant Doris we move on to the similarly statuesque Anna and one of my favorite subjects : cricket. It would have been even more topical if this years Ashes series hadn’t finished with indecent haste this …

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