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Feb 13, 2023 · Left Self Portrait by Dora Carrington, c. 1910, National Portrait Gallery, London, via Art UK. Dora Carrington was one of the early twentieth century’s most unique yet overlooked artists.
Yet this painting is a remarkably rare self-portrait by Carrington. An early drawing of around 1910 exists, now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, and a rather stylised woodcut in the form of a faux postage stamp from around 1916 but little else is known.
An accomplished painter of portraits, landscape and still-life, Carrington also worked in applied and decorative arts, painting on any type of surface she had at hand including inn signs, tiles and furniture.
Dec 24, 2022 · Dora Carrington: The Early Years. Self Portrait by Dora Carrington, 1913, Jerwood Collection, London, via Art UK. Dora de Houghton Carrington was born in Herefordshire on 29 March 1893 to an affluent, comfortably middle-class family.
Jun 14, 2023 · Portrait of Bloomsbury writer E.M. Forster, Dora Carrington, Oil on Canvas, 1920 (National Portrait Gallery, London) At a party at Asheham House, Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s weekend retreat, she met Lytton Strachey - critic, biographer, and the Bloomsberry that would change her life.
This portrait. This self-portrait is undated, but is thought to have been made around 1910. In that year Carrington entered the Slade, dropped her first name (which she hated), and cropped her hair - thus becoming one of the first 'cropheads', as Virginia Woolf called them.
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Dora Carrington. (1893-1932), Artist. Sitter in 20 portraits. Artist associated with 10 portraits. Carrington was an artist associated with the Bloomsbury Group. She studied at the Slade School, where she chose to be known by her surname only.
