Dorothy Coke

[1] Coke was also an art teacher and as an artist was known for her watercolours, which have a very free, open-air quality to them.

[3] When she was seventeen, Coke entered the Slade School of Art, where she continued to study throughout the First World War and where she won a prize for figure composition.

[3] In the summer of 1918 Coke submitted some sketches to the British War Memorials Committee for a possible commission.

That proposal was rejected but shortly afterwards Muirhead Bone bought two of her watercolours for the Imperial War Museum collection.

[8] One of her paintings was included in the Britain at War exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York which opened in May 1941.

WAAF Instrument Mechanics at Work (1941) (ArtIWM.ART LD 1298)