St Mary's First Aid Post By Candlelight, 1941 (oil on canvas)

Creator: Dunbar, Evelyn Mary (1906-60) The interior of a medical centre during the blackout, with many nurses and a doctor standing over a patient lying on an operating table, London, 1941. Shelves are stacked with glass jars on the left, and medical instruments are on tables in the bottom and middle ground. Evelyn Mary Dunbar was a prolific British official war artist who produced 44 works for the War Artists Advisory Committee in the Second World War - the only full-time salaried woman employed by the WAAC. Most of her work depicted the Home Front and the Women's Land Army.