Dorr Bothwell Biography
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Chronology:
1902
Born: San Francisco
1921-24
Studies: w/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
1925-27
Opens Modern Gallery, Montgomery Street, San Francisco with eight other artists
1928
Visits Samoa
1930-31
Travels and studies in England, France, and Germany
1932-34
In San Diego, married to sculptor Donal Hord
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:Manning Coffee Restaurant, Sutter Street
1944-48
Teaches: California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco
1949-51
In Paris on Abraham Rosenberg Fellowship for Art Study Abroad
1952
Teaches: Parsons School of Design, New York
1953-58
Resumes teaching at California School of Fine Arts
1959-60
Teaches: San Francisco Art Institute
1960
Moves to Mendocino
1961-97
Instructs: Mendocino Art Center
1964-78
Teaches composition/design at Ansel Adams Photography Workshops, Yosemite;
1966,68,76,96
Teaches: San Francisco Art Institute
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
1979
Women in the Arts Award, Women's Caucus for Art
1982,85
Travels and studies in China and Japan
1991
New edition of "Notan" (see 1968)
1998
Receives Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
1999
Travels to San Diego Historical Museum to speak at Donal Hord Exhibition
2000
Died in Ft. Bragg, California September 24 - Age 98
Selected One Person Exhibitions:
1917
Modern Gallery, San Francisco
1929
San Diego Fine Arts Museum
1930
Beaux Art Gallery, San Francisco
1941
San Francisco Art Association
1948-52
Serigraph Galleries, New York
1958
Meltzer Gallery, New York
1958
M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
1962-68
Bay Window Gallery, Mendocino, California
1963
M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, "Signs and Fences"
1969
The Daily Gallery, San Francisco
1972
Bolles Gallery, San Francisco
1976-77,79
Bay Window Gallery, Mendocino, California
1977
Falkirk Center, San Rafael, California
1982,85-87
Bay Window Gallery, Mendocino, California
1989,91,93, 97, 99
Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles
2001
Memorial Retrospective, Tobey C. Moss Gallery
2004
An Eye Towards Abstraction, Tobey C. Moss Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1925
San Francisco Art Association, Fine Arts Building
1927
San Diego Art Guild
1929
San Francisco Art Association
1932
San Diego Art Guild
1933
San Diego Art Guild
1939
Golden Gate International Exposition
1948
National Serigraph Society, New York, First Prize
1952
M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
Smithsonian Institution, "The Serigraph"
1952,58
Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburgh
1955
III Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1977
Brooklyn Museum, NY, "Thirty Years of American Printmaking"
1990
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, "A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960"
1990/92(*)
"A Time and Place" The Ries Collection:Oakland Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
1995 (*)
"Pacific Dreams:Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art 1934-1957"
Oakland Art Museum; UCLA/Hammer Museum of Art; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
1995-1997(*)
"Independent Spirits:Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945" Autry Museum, Los Angeles, Gilcrease Museum, Oklahoma, and others
1996 (*)
"On the Edge of America, California Modernist Art 1900-1950" Rutberg Gallery
1990-99
Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2000
Orange County Museum of Art "Circles of Influence:Impressionism to Modernism in Southern California Art"
2000/2001
Los Angeles County Museum of Art "Made in California"
Museum Collections (a partial list):
Achenbach Foundation, S. F. Fine Arts Museum
University of Arizona, Tucson
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Orange County Museum of Art
Oakland Art Museum
San Diego Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,U/Nebraska
Victoria and Albert Museum, Great Britain
Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Library of Congress
National Museum of American Art
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
New York Public Library
N. E. Harrison Museum of Art, Utah
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
Listed in: Who's Who in America
Who's Who in the West
Materials useful for research: see (*)
The Archives of American Art, West Coast Center
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