Air Raid Shelter

Born in London to a family of German Jewish descent, Amy Julia Drucker studied at the Lambeth School of Art and then earned her living as a painter, exhibiting widely in England and around the world. Adventurous, she traveled across the globe, painting in China, Brazil, Ethiopia (where she produced a portrait of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie), and Palestine, where she taught drawing in Jerusalem. Drucker painted emotional scenes of poverty, immigration, and hardship, often locating them in London’s East End. She also produced lithographs, woodcuts, and drawings.