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Dorr Bothwell Art

American, 1902-2000

Dorris Hodgson Bothwell, known as Dorr, was born in San Francisco, 1902. The Bothwell family moved to San Diego in 1911, where they became friends and neighbors with the artists Anna and Albert Valentien. Bothwell began her art studies with Anna in 1916 at the age of 14. In the early 1920s, Bothwell 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 in San Francisco, 1926. Returning to San Diego in 1931, Bothwell became involved, once more, with the San Diego art community and exhibited with the San Diego Moderns. In 1934, she was in Los Angeles and there she joined the post-surrealist circle of Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg, finding some parallels between their post-surrealist concepts and her work. She attended classes conducted by Feitelson as part of the Public Works of Art Project from 1933–34 and eventually joined the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project as a painter in the mural division. She produced several murals for the WPA. In the 1940s and 1950s, she taught at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Bothwell died on September 24, 2000, in Fort Bragg, California.

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Artist: Dorr Bothwell
Orange Grove Landscape
By Dorr Bothwell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing ...
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1940s American Modern Dorr Bothwell Art

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Gouache, Board

MALLORCA
By Dorr Bothwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
DORR BOTHWELL ( 1902 - 2000) MALLORCA Serigraph, Signed, titled and numbered 8/25 in pencil. Signed and dated in the print. Image. 13 1/8 x 9 inches, sheet 19 7/8 x 12 3/4 inches. ...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Dorr Bothwell Art

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Screen

"Coast July No. 2" - Multi Layer Landscape Screenprint (9 of 23)
By Dorr Bothwell
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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