# Amy Drucker

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**Amy Julia Drucker** (1873 – November 1951) was a British artist and educator of [Jewish](/source/Jew) descent.

## Biography

The daughter of a wine merchant and his wife from Germany, Drucker was born in London, England, and grew up in [Hampstead](/source/Hampstead).[1] She was educated at South Hampstead High School and studied art at [St John's Wood Art School](/source/St_John's_Wood_Art_School) and the [Lambeth School of Art](/source/Lambeth_School_of_Art), both in London, and at the [Académie Colarossi](/source/Acad%C3%A9mie_Colarossi) in [Paris](/source/Paris), France.[1][2] She had a studio in [Bloomsbury](/source/Bloomsbury).[3] Besides paintings, watercolours and pastels, she also produced [lithographs](/source/Lithograph), [miniatures](/source/Miniature_art), [woodcut](/source/Woodcut) prints, drawings and etchings.[1] She exhibited her work regularly from 1888 to 1949 at various venues in England, including at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) in London.[4][5] She also exhibited at the [Paris Salon](/source/Paris_Salon) and had solo shows in [Buenos Aires](/source/Buenos_Aires), [Lima](/source/Lima), [Panama](/source/Panama), [Jerusalem](/source/Jerusalem), [Beijing](/source/Beijing) and [Shanghai](/source/Shanghai).[1]

Drucker travelled extensively, spending time in the Europe, the Far East, South America, [Palestine](/source/Mandatory_Palestine) and [Abyssinia](/source/Ethiopian_Empire), where was commissioned to paint a portrait of [Haile Selassie](/source/Haile_Selassie).[1][2][3] She made extensive drawings of the people and cultures she encountered on her travels and taught painting and printing in [Calcutta](/source/Calcutta), at the Jerusalem School of Art and gave private art lessons in London.[1]

During [World War I](/source/World_War_I), Drucker served in the [Women's Land Army](/source/Women's_Land_Army).[6] During [World War II](/source/World_War_II), she worked in a factory and as a night watchman.[6] After her death, two portfolios of her work were presented at the [Royal Anthropological Institute](/source/Royal_Anthropological_Institute_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland). In 1952, an exhibition of her work was shown at the [Ben Uri Gallery](/source/Ben_Uri_Gallery) and a prize was awarded in two consecutive years in her name to a promising young Jewish artist.[6] The Ben Uri Gallery holds several works by Drucker.[3]

Her better-known paintings include:

- *The Aliens*
- *Wentworth Street at Night*
- *Arab Water Carriers*[4]
- *For He had Great Possessions*[6]

## References

1. Gray, Sara (2019). *British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts*. Dark River. ISBN 978-1-911121-63-3.

1. Buckman, David (2006). *Artists in Britain Since 1945, Vol. 1, A to L*. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.

1. Schwab, W. M. (ed.) (1987). *Jewish Artists The Ben Uri Collection*. Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd / Ben Uri Art Society. ISBN 0-85331-537-X.

1. Rubinstein, W. & Michael A Jolles (2011). [*The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=spOxzrifZjcC&pg=PT472). p. 1472. ISBN 978-0230304666.

1. Walsh, Michael J. K. (2010). [*London, Modernism, and 1914*](https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hq5HkduUToC&pg=PA145). p. 145. ISBN 978-0521195805.

1. ["Work by Amy Drucker"](https://www.benuricollection.org.uk/intermediate.php?artistid=209). *Ben Uri Gallery*. Retrieved 17 June 2020.

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