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This sketch depicts firewomen in the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) resting at their quarters, unable to return home due to air raids. Their duties included transportation, administration and operating switchboards. Enid Dreyfus (née Abrahams - her name at the time of making this work), who studied at the Royal Academy Schools, regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions and with the New English Art Club. From 1939 she worked as an AFS driver as well as practising as an artist. She sketched from life during her shifts and was one of the few women artists whose work was displayed at Firemen Artists’ exhibitions, which were extremely popular in the early years of the war.

Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

London

Title

Firewomen Resting, London Blitz

Date

c.1941

Medium

ink on paper

Accession number

FA02106

Work type

Drawing

Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

Grahame Park Way, London, Greater London NW9 5LL England

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Artist or maker

Enid Abrahams

1906–1972

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