Eileen Margaret Evans (8 November 1921 - August 2006) was a

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who co-founded the Mount/Evans

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with graphic designer,

Reginald Mount Edward Reginald Mount (4 July 1906 – 31 January 1979) was a British graphic designer. Mount was born Edward Reginald Mount, on 4 July 1906. He worked as a designer for various advertising agencies in London in the 1930s, then joined the Minis ...

after

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Biography

INF3-94 Staggered holidays for comfort Artist Eileen Evans

Evans studied

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at the

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in London, graduating in 1939. Evans selected this school expressly due to its reputation for providing good employment opportunities. Shortly afterwards, she joined the Ministry of Information (which later became the Central Office of Information or COI). During the war Evans and Mount worked together at the Ministry of Information designing many

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and

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posters. Evans also created posters independently of Mount, including at least one recruitment poster for farm workers, plus several for the ''Lend A Hand on the Land '' campaign which encouraged city families to take working holidays to help with wartime harvests. Evans is one of the featured artists in the

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'The Art of War' collection. Her collaborative work with Mount is also included in the

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collections. Their anti-smoking and

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posters won awards. In their joint work and commissions, Evans was responsible for the

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and

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of the posters. Their partnership continued into the 1950s and 1960s with posters such as ''The Parachute Regiment'' for the British Army Recruiting Office, the 1967 ''Britain in Montreal'' poster for the

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and further work for the

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Works by Evans
in the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Eileen 1921 births 2006 deaths 20th-century British women artists Alumni of Reimann School (London) British graphic designers British women graphic designers Place of birth missing