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.