Stella Bowen: Julia 1940
- Periods:
- To England
- An artist's journey
- Inner worlds
- The return to England
- The war years
Period: The war years
Julia
painted in Purleigh, Essex, England, c. 1940
oil on cardboard 44.9 x 30.3 cm
not signed, not dated
private collection
In this portrait of her daughter, Julia, Stella Bowen has captured her as a young adult, born in the aftermath of one world war, only to reach maturity during another.
During the Second World War, Julia used her fluent French and typing skills for liaison work in the Army, with the Free French Forces, and later with the Auxiliary Territorial Service, a women’s service that performed support tasks for the British Army, including playing a vital role in anti-aircraft operations.
Paintings
- Julia
- The house opposite
- Flight from reason
- Embankment gardens
- Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin
- Bomber crew
- Bombing up a Lancaster for Wing Commander Douglas
- Remains of a flying bomb
- Group Captain Hughie Edwards
- D-Day, 0300 hours, interrogation hut
- Flying Officer Frederick Syme, Sunderland captain
- Pilot Officer Ronald Warfield
- A Sunderland crew comes ashore at Pembroke Dock (F. Syme, Ron Warfield, Ron Tyson, Eric Genders, Charlie Martin, Spud Murphy, Bob Meade, Merv Pike, Jock Beattie, Curly Rowland and John Bishop)
- At the Churchill Club, large and small worlds
- RAAF airmen at Mongewell Park Medical Rehabilitation Unit
- Private, Gowrie House
- Repatriated prisoner of war is processed
- Brigadier George Langley
- Reception desk at Gowrie House, Eastbourne
- Theaden in Kensington
- [Flowers in a green Norwegian pot]