Olive Mudie-Cooke Essay

Olive Mudie-Cooke is the artist I have chosen for this research project. Olive Mudie-cooke was a women in the First world war mostly known as a British artist. She is to me an advocate for women everywhere. With aspiring love, courage and inspiration to us all. This women has done so much in her life to help others, as we can see through her watercolors and chalky drawings. To me she was a silent storyteller of her life and to others of the news I wish one day I could aspire to be half the women she is.
Mudie-Cooke is the younger of two daughters to Henry Cooke and Beatrice Mudie, born in west London. She studied many things at a young age such as a short period of time in Venice, studied art at St John Wood Art School and at Goldsmith’s college. She than went on to France as a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Mudie-Cooke had learned many traits during her time in the war such as her sketching, paints, her fluent in French, Italian, and German. She also sometimes worked as an interpreter for the Red Cross.
Mudie-Cooke began her career as an artist during the first war. One of Mudie- Cooke’s most famous picture is one of a VAD worker lighting a cigarette for a wounded soldier. I have personally found this …show more content…
The following year an exhibition of her art was held at Beaux- Arts Gallery on Bruton Place. I haven’t been able to find much information on what Olive Mudie- Cooke did after her time in the war, other than her visits to the battlefields. I hope she lived a long and beautiful life after so much tragic. Hopefully found love and had children of her own. My research on Mudie- Cooke has shown to be very inspiring as a women and as a person. This work has inspired and paved a pathway for others to work across war zones and regions experiencing humanitarian crises and women who are soldiers all because of Mudie-Cooke. Her work has shown us not just beautiful art work but journalism as