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Evelyn Gibbs (British, 1905–1991) Telleva donkey, 1961 signed lower right "Evelyn Gibbs" watercolour h:43 w:55.50 cm Provenance: Miss A M Cappung and by descent. Exhibited: Evelyn Gibbs The Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square, London, March 1961, No.13. Evelyn Gibbs studied in Liverpool and at the Royal College of Art, before winning a Prix de Rome Scholarship for engraving, with which she spent two years in Italy. Supporting herself by teaching at a school for handicapped children, she wrote a book on art teaching illustrated by her pupils, and then became a teacher-training lecturer at Goldsmiths College. When Goldsmiths was evacuated to Nottingham during World War II, she created the Midlands Group of Artists: two exhibitions in a large empty building led to permanent gallery premises and a range of other activities supporting artists in the region. The Midlands Group of Artists painted murals at five locations throughout the region but none were thought to have survived. In 2013, workmen rewiring St. Martin's Church in Bilborough, Nottingham uncovered two of Evelyn Gibbs's murals, which were thought to have been destroyed in the 1970s. These murals are now to be restored and put on public display. In 1943 Gibbs submitted three works to the War Artists' Advisory Committee. A further commission on the work of the Women's Voluntary Service resulted in the painting "WVS Clothing Exchange" (1943). Some dirt under the glass.