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The Chilwell commission was replaced by a request for a painting of work at the Singer factory in Glasgow. Airy was also commissioned by the Women's Work Section of the IWM during the war. In 1917 she was commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund; and in 1940 by the Ministry of Munitions. Her
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in 1905 and in each subsequent year there until 1956, her first one-woman exhibition having been held at the Carfax Gallery in 1908. Airy also exhibited at exhibitions at the Paris Salon and in Italy, Canada and in the United States. She has been represented in the
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In June 1918 the Munitions Committee of the Imperial War Museum, IWM. commissioned her to create four paintings representing typical scenes in four munitions factories: These included,
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in an extremely hot environment, "the ground became so hot that her shoes were burnt off her feet". This painting was featured in an exhibition at the
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The Women Who Inspired London Art, The Avico Sisters and Other Models of the Early 20th Century
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National Filling Factory at Chilwell, Nottingham, W G Armstrong Whitworth's at Nottingham;
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Airy was a member of several artistic societies. She was elected as a member of
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in 1908 when the society elected her. She was also an elected member of the
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Women Working in a Gas Retort House - South Metropolitan Gas Company, London
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and was recognised as one of the leading women artists of her generation.
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A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London
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She was elected as the President of the Ipswich Art Society in 1945.
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Members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
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in London from 1899 to 1903, where she studied alongside
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Who Was Who, 'AIRY, Anna' A & C Black, 1920–2008
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She also joined the 119: 828:. Antique Collectors' Club. 430:Arifa Akbar (8 April 2011). 7: 10: 1004: 278:Victoria and Albert Museum 241:Geoffrey Buckingham Pocock 223:South Metropolitan Gas Co. 99:Geoffrey Buckingham Pocock 72:Greenwich, London, England 16:English painter and etcher 853:. The Lutterworth Press. 766:. Pen & Sword Books. 95: 91:Painting, Pastel, Etching 87: 77: 61: 39: 30: 23: 573:. Richard Green Gallery. 203:'s 2011–2012 exhibition 141:Slade School of Fine Art 82:Slade School of Fine Art 788:"Collection: Anna Airy" 368:Airy is the author of: 284:, Sydney as well as in 166: 983:English pastel artists 624:. 2011. Archived from 569:Richard Green (1995). 488:Goward, K. J. (2006). 344:. A painting by Airy, 188: 178: 139:. 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Greenwich
Slade School of Fine Art
etcher
war artist
Greenwich
Astronomer Royal
George Biddell Airy
Slade School of Fine Art
William Orpen
Augustus John
Fred Brown
Henry Tonks
Philip Wilson Steer
interior view from an elevated position showing the shop-floor of an aircraft assembly factory. The aircraft are seen in various stages of assembly to the left and right of the image. In the centre are lines of workbenches and a range of different factory personnel
interior view of a gasworks showing the retort process. Several women dressed in dark overalls stand at work on the floor of the gasworks. The focal point is the clouds of grey smoke and yellow flames emitted from the wall on the left of the painting
World War I
Imperial War Museum
1928 Summer Olympics
1932 Summer Olympics
Geoffrey Buckingham Pocock
Haverstock Hill
Hampstead
Playford
Ipswich
Royal Academy
British Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Auckland

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