Sarah du Feu

Sarah du Feu, Cornwall Seascape 2, Original Monoprint, Contemporary British Art

2020

Sarah du Feu Cornwall Seascape 1 Original Monoprint Image size 40 x 50 cm Mounted size 55 x 63 cm Unframed Printed on acid free Somerset Velvet 280gsm paper Please note that insitu i...

Sarah du Feu Corn and Clouds 3 Original Monorprint Image size 40 x 50 cm Mounted size 55 x 63 cm Unframed Printed on acid free Somerset Velvet 280gsm paper This monoprint print was ...

Titled in lower left corner ("Coast July No. 2") Numbered lower center ("9/23") Signed and dated twice in lower right, once inside the artwork, once below ("Bothwell '63" and "Dorr Bothwell '63") Presented in a cream colored mat with foamcore backing. Mat size: 24"H x 28"W Paper size: 20"H x 26"W Dorris Hodgson Bothwell (American, 1902–2000), known as Dorr, was born in San Francisco, California, on May 3, 1902. The Bothwell family moved to San Diego in 1911, where they became friends and neighbors with the artists Anna and Albert Valentien. Dorr began her art studies with Anna in 1916 at the age of 14. In the early 1920s, Dorr returned to San Francisco to study at the California School of Fine Arts, then studied at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, and the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design, which was founded in San Francisco, 1926. After receiving a modest inheritance, Dorr traveled to American Samoa in 1928, where she remained for two years and produced many works of art in a wide variety of mediums. Some of these were successfully shown at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego and the Beaux Gallery in San Francisco, allowing her to spend time in England, France, and Germany. Returning to San Diego in 1931, Dorr became involved, once more, with the San Diego art community and exhibited with the San Diego Moderns...

The boat symbolizes the passage of our coming into birth, journeying through life, and eventually guiding us to our last crossing. "...leading us back to the swaying, gliding somnole...