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| | Born in San Francisco, CA on Oct. 19, 1877. Dorr graduated from Mills College in Oakland in 1897 and then studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute under Piazzoni. After the 1906 earthquake, she studied for two years in Paris at Ecole des Beaux Arts and in Munich. Upon her return, she established a studio in the “Monkey Block” (now the site of the Transamerica Bldg) and wed Angelo Luca. Her works were considered modern by the standards of 1916. Because of a bad review, she burned all of the works she still owned in 1916 and abandoned painting. Mrs. Luca died in Oakland on Jan. 1, 1978. Exh: SFAA, 1916 . In: Mills College (Oakland); Nat'l Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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