Amy J. Drucker

Amy Julia Drucker (1873 – November 1951) was a British artist and educator of Jewish descent.

Biography The daughter of a wine merchant and his wife from Germany, Drucker was born in London, England, and grew up in Hampstead. She was educated at South Hampstead High School and studied art at St John's Wood Art School and the Lambeth School of Art, both in London, and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, France. She had a studio in Bloomsbury. Besides paintings, watercolours and pastels, she also produced lithographs, miniatures, woodcut prints, drawings and etchings. She also exhibited at the Paris Salon and had solo shows in Buenos Aires, Lima, Panama, Jerusalem, Beijing and Shanghai. During World War II, she worked in a factory and as a night watchman. After her death, two portfolios of her work were presented at the Royal Anthropological Institute. In 1952, an exhibition of her work was shown at the Ben Uri Gallery and a prize was awarded in two consecutive years in her name to a promising young Jewish artist. The Ben Uri Gallery holds several works by Drucker.

Her paintings include: The Aliens Wentworth Street at Night Arab Water Carriers For He had Great Possessions