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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Mercer Gallery : home of a fine piece of Zinkeisen art
via Mercer Art Gallery | Harrogate Borough Council
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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Doris Zinkeisen, socialite, sister and artist
On a trip past York this week I got to thinking about Dick Turpin ! Doris Clare Zinkeisen was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design. This self portrait shows great artistic talent and embodies the spirit of the upper …