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DORR BOTHWELL (1902-2000)
| 1902 |
Born in San Francisco, CA |
| 1906 |
Tells parents she will become an
artist |
| 1911 |
Moves to San Diego with parents |
| 1916 |
Begins art studies under Anna
Valentien, Donal Hord is a classmate |
| 1921-24 |
Studies with Gottardo Piazzoni,
California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; Rudolf Schaffer School
of Design, San Francisco; University of Oregon |
| 1924-27 |
Studio, San Francisco,
Montgomery Block |
| 1925 |
Charter member of the Society of
San Francisco Women Artists |
| 1925-27 |
Opens Modern Gallery, Montgomery
Street, San Francisco with eight other artists |
| 1928-29 |
Travels to Samoa, becomes the
adopted daughter of the tribe’s chief and lives as a member of the
tribe, painting the whole time |
| 1930 |
Returns to San Francisco for two
weeks, becoming a local celebrity for her time in Samoa |
| 1930-31 |
Travels and studies in England,
France, and Germany |
| 1931 |
Returns to San Diego from Europe |
| 1932-34 |
Settles in San Diego, married to
sculptor Donal Hord |
| 1934 |
Separates from Donal Hord |
| Moves to La Jolla |
|
| Moves to Los Angeles and joins
post-surrealist group around Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg |
|
| 1935-36 |
Design at Gladding-McBean, Los
Angeles |
| 1935 |
Opens Bothwell-Cooke Gallery in
Los Angeles |
| 1936-39 |
Works in mural division of the
Federal Arts Project, Los Angeles |
| 1938-39 |
WPA, designs dioramas/mechanized
exhibitions for L.A. County Museum |
| 1940 |
Moves to San Francisco, creates
murals for Manning Coffee Restaurant, Sutter Street |
| 1943 |
Sees an exhibition of serigraphs
and is inspired to lean the technique |
| 1944-48 |
Teaches at the California School
of Fine Arts, San Francisco |
| 1949-51 |
Goes to Paris on Abraham
Rosenberg Fellowship for Art Study Abroad |
| 1952 |
Teaches at Parsons School of
Design, New York |
| 1953-58 |
Resumes teaching at California
School of Fine Arts |
| 1959-96 |
Teaches at San Francisco Art
Institute |
| 1960 |
Bill Zacha, founder of Mendocino
Art Center invites her to teach and live in his art colony; moves to
Mendocino |
| 1961-97 |
Instructs at Mendocino Art Center |
| 1964-78 |
Teaches composition/design at
Ansel Adams Photography Workshops, Yosemite |
| 1966-67 |
In Nigeria and Tunisia, does
photo-documentation of craft techniques |
| 1968 |
Authors Notan - on the Interaction of Positive and
Negative Spaces with Marlys Mayfield; reissued in 1976; first
translation 1977(Danish) |
| 1970 |
Travels and studies in England,
France, and Holland |
| 1971 |
Conducts symposium for teachers,
Notan Design London,
England |
| 1974 |
Travels and studies in Bali,
Java, and Sumatra |
| 1979 |
Instructor in Composition at
Victor School of Photography, Colorado |
| Receives San Francisco Women in
the Arts Award, Women's Caucus for Art |
|
| 1982,85 |
Travels and studies in China and
Japan |
| 1992 |
Settles in Arizona |
| 1998 |
Receives Pollock-Krasner
Foundation Award |
| 1999 |
Travels to San Diego Historical
Museum to speak at Donal Hord Exhibition |
| 2000 |
Receives a second
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, which allows her to have her work,
records and memoirs preserved and archived |
| Speaks at an exhibition in San
Diego honoring the work of Donal Hord |
|
| Returns to Mendocino due to
failing vision and mobility |
|
| Dies in Ft. Bragg, California
September 24 at age 98 |
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
| 1927 |
Modern Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1929 |
San Diego Fine Arts Museum, CA |
| 1930 |
Beaux Art Gallery, San
Francisco, CA |
| 1941 |
San Francisco Art Association, CA |
| 1948-52 |
Serigraph Galleries, New York, NY |
| 1958 |
Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY |
| M.H. De Young Memorial Museum,
San Francisco, CA |
|
| 1962-68 |
Bay Window Gallery, Mendocino, CA |
| 1963 |
Signs
and Fences, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco,
CA |
| 1969 |
The Daily Gallery, San
Francisco, CA |
| 1972 |
Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1976-77 |
Bay Window Gallery, Mendocino, CA |
| 1977 |
Falkirk Center, San Rafael, CA |
| 1979 |
Bay Window Gallery, Mendocino, CA |
| 1982 |
Bay Window Gallery, Mendocino, CA |
| 1985-87 |
Bay Window Gallery, Mendocino, CA |
| 1989 |
Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA |
| 1991 |
Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA |
| 1993 |
Dorr
Bothwell: Screenprints, Drawings, Paintings, Tobey C. Moss
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1997 |
Dorr
Bothwell: Paintings and Screenprints, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA |
| 1999 |
Dorr
Bothwell: A Special Vision, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA |
| Dorr
Bothwell: Original Prints from Three Decades, Mendocino Art
Center, Mendocino, CA |
|
| 2001 |
Memorial
Retrospective, Tobey C. Moss Gallery |
| 2004 |
Dorr
Bothwell: An Eye Towards Abstraction, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA |
Selected Group Exhibitions:
| 1925 | San Francisco Art Association,
Fine Arts Building, San Francisco, CA |
| 1927 |
San Diego Art Guild, San Diego,
CA |
| 1929 |
San Francisco Art Association,
San Francisco, CA |
| 1932 |
San Diego Art Guild, San Diego,
CA |
| 1933 |
San Diego Art Guild, San Diego,
CA |
| 1939 |
Golden
Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA |
| 1952 |
M.H. De Young Memorial Museum,
San Francisco, CA |
| The
Serigraph, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC |
|
| 1952-58 |
Carnegie International
Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1955 |
Il
Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 1977 |
Thirty
Years of American Printmaking, Brooklyn Museum, NY |
| 1990 |
A
Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960,
Worcester Art Museum, MA |
| 1990-92 |
A
Time and Place, The Ries Collection: Oakland Art Museum; Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Norton Gallery, West
Palm Beach, Florida |
| 1995 |
Pacific
Dreams: Current of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art 1934-1957,
Oakland Art Museum; UCLA/Hammer Museum of Art; Nora Eccles Harrison
Museum of Art, Logan, UT |
| 1995-97 |
Independent
Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945, Autry
Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA |
| Gilcrease Museum, OK |
|
| 1996 |
On
the Edge of America, California Modernist Art 1900-1950, Jack
Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2000 |
Circles
of Influence: Impressionism to Modernism in Southern California Art,
Orange County Museum of Art, CA |
| 2000-01 |
Made
in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2001 |
Head
Count, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA |
| Women:
On Common Ground, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA |
|
| 2001-03 |
Vital
Forms: American Art in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960, Brooklyn
Museum of Art, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Frist Center for
the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA;
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
| 2002 |
Creative
Transitions, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA |
| 2002-03 |
Holiday
Highlights, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA |
| 2003 |
With
an Eye and a Passion: Selections from the Allan and Susan Marion
Cllection, The Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA |
| From
Brice and Feitelson to Goya and Ribera: Four Centuries of the Figure,
Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA |
|
| 2003-04 |
Not
So Still Life, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Pasadena
Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA |
| 2004 |
Twenty-Fifth
Anniversary, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA |
| Of
Women/By Women, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA |
|
| 2006 |
Drawings:
The Hand of the Artist, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles CA |
| 2007 |
The
She of It, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
Selected Public Collections:
| Achenbach Foundation, Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, CA |
| University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris,
France |
| Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, MA |
| Brooklyn Museum of Art, New
York, NY |
| Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento,
CA |
| Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA |
| Library of Congress, Washington,
DC |
| Los Angeles County Museum of
Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, NY |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY |
| National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC |
| National Museum of American Art,
Washington, DC |
| New York Public Library, New
York, NY |
| Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of
Art, Logan, UT |
| Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA |
| Oakland Museum of California,
Oakland, CA |
| San Diego Museum of Art, San
Diego, CA |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, CA |
| Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,
University Nebraska, Lincoln, NE |
| Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, England |
| Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY |
| Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,
MA |
Publications:
| 1968 | Notan:
The Principle of Light and Dark Design, Bothwell and Frey, Van
Nostrand-Reinhold, New York |
| 1976 |
Notan
reissued in paperback |
| 1977 |
Notan
translated into Danish |
| 1991 |
Notan
new English edition |
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