Research Catalog

Title

The art of Dora Carrington / Jane Hill ; foreword by Michael Holroyd.

Author

Hill, Jane

Publication

London : Herbert, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Carrington, Dora de Houghton, 1893-1932

Description

144 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

"At the age of 38 Dora Carrington (1893-1932) committed suicide, unable to contemplate living without her companion, Lytton Strachey, who had died a few weeks before. Lytton was the lynchpin of a life in which friendships, making a home and her own artistic output jockeyed for attention. The association with Lytton and his Bloomsbury friends, combined with her own modesty have tended to overshadow Carrington's contribution to Modern British painting. This important book goes a long way to redress the balance -- looking at the immense range of her work: portraits, landscapes, glass paintings, letter drawings and decorative work, which reveal Carrington as a significant artist of her period."--Book jacket.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Artists > Great Britain > Biography
• Carrington, Dora de Houghton, 1893-1932 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-137) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / by Michael Holroyd -- London 1910-1914. 1. The Slade years of apprenticeship -- Hurstbourne Tarrant 1914-1917. 2. Own Voice. 3. The modern movement. Black and white -- Tidmarsh Mill 1917-1924. 4. At home: people and place portraiture. 5. The English tradition of popular art. 6. An expanding world: at home and abroad -- Ham Spray 1924-1932. 7. A green world: conversation pieces. 8. Vanitas. Fugitive light -- Conclusion: Time and tide wait for no man -- Notes -- Chronology -- Index.

ISBN

1871569605

OCLC

• 30401560
• SCSB-11487795

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library