Biography from Carlson Gallery:
| Born in San Francisco, Dorr Bothwell became a modernist and symbolist
painter, continually exploring new styles and themes. She was
much influenced throughout her life by her parents' Quaker and
Christian Science beliefs.
At age 19, Bothwell entered the
California School of Fine Arts and there worked with teachers Rudolf
Schaeffer and Gottardo Piazzoni. For many years she was a teacher at
the San Francisco Art Institute and was especially focused on theories
of color.
In 1979, she earned the San Francisco Women in the Arts Award and in 1998-2000, two Pollock-Krasner Awards.
Solo Exhibitions: M. H. de Young Museum, 1958.
Selected
Group Exhibitions:
61st Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the
San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1941;
62nd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art
Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1942;
65th Annual
Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945;
Second Annual Exhibition of
Painting, California Palace of The Legion of Honor 1948;
67th Annual
Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1948;
Third Annual Exhibition of
Painting, California Palace of The Legion of Honor 1949;
68th Annual
Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1949;
70th Annual Painting and
Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San
Francisco Museum of Art, 1951;
Fifth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary
Painting, California Palace of The Legion of Honor 1952;
72nd Annual
Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association
at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1953;
PACIFIC COAST ART, IIIrd
Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955;
Contemporary American Painters,
1950-1955, Stanford Art Gallery 1956;
75th Annual Painting and
Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San
Francisco Museum of Art, 1956;
The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art
Association, 1958, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66; Winter Invitational,
California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963,1964;
The
Oakland Museum, California. A Period of Exploration: San Francisco
1945-1950; 1973.
Public Collections:
San Diego Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; San Francisco Museum of
Art; Metropolitan Museum; Santa Barbara Museum; Crocker Art Museum;
Whitney Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum; Brooklyn Museum;
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; California Palace of the Legion of
Honor; New York Museum of Modern Art.
Literature:
Bruce Kamerling, San Diego Historical Society; Who Was Who in American
Art; Who's Who on the Pacific Coast; Thomas Albright, Art in the San
Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980; Nancy Moure, California Art, 450 Years
of Painting & Other Media; Pacific Dreams, Currents of Surrealism
and Fantasy in California Art, 1934-1957. San Francisco Art Association
(Institute) Catalog of the Art Bank.
Source:
David J Carlson,
Carlson Gallery, California. Carlson's specialty is Post-World
War II California artists, and he is preparing a catalogue for a 2004
traveling exhibition of these artists to several California museums.
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Biography from Annex Galleries:
| Dorr Bothwell (1902 - 2000)
At the age of four, Dorr Bothwell determined her future as an
artist. She began her art career at the California School of Fine
Arts in 1921, under the tutelage of Gottardo Piazzoni. Painting,
teaching, travelling and marriage to sculptor Donal Hord dominated the
years between 1926 and 1933.
Separating from Hord, she moved to Los Angeles in 1934, joining Lorser
Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg in post-surrealist imagery and
participating in the mural division of the Federal Arts Project.
She returned to San Francisco in 1942 and included screenprinting with
painting and teaching in her art career. In 1968 she co-wrote the
book Notan, which encompasses the principles developed in her
teaching; it contrasts the interaction of positive and negative space
in design. This book is still widely used today and has been
translated into many languages.
Her extensive traveling, even
living and working in the 1920s with a tribe in Samoa, is revealed in
many of her earlier works while the later paintings and prints reflect
her love of the Pacific Northwest in the United States. A thread
of surreality and abstraction is observed in her paintings of the late
1920s through the early 1950s, overtaken by her irrepressible gusto for
life and nature.
Bio from tobeymossgallery.com
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