23 June 2015

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As well as her oil paintings Golden designed book jackets and in the 1940s produced lots of illustrations for the Ministry of Information. Her attention to detail is extraordinary: the spectators leaning out of the windows; each member of the Guard is distinct from the other. Towards the end of her life it seems she might have regretted these commercial works, sensing that they took her away from more ‘serious’ artistic endeavours.