Doris Zinkeisen
This collection consists of some programmes, and costume designs for The House by the Bridge by Edward Percy.
Doris Zinkeisen was born in Kilcreggan, Dunbartonshire in 1898 and, together with her sister Anna, studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London. She was an illustrator, costume and theatrical designer and well-known society painter; she exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
In 1935, Zinkeisen was commissioned by John Brown and Company, Shipbuilders of Clydebank, to paint the murals in the Verandah Grill of the famous ocean liner the RMS Queen Mary. Her work can still be seen on the ship, now permanently moored in Long Beach, California.
In 1941, during World War II, Zinkeisen and Anna were both employed as war artists for the North West Europe Commission of the Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John.
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