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Dora
Carrington
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ARTIST
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1893-1932
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Dora Carrington
British
painter
English painter
and decorative artist. Daughter of a Liverpool merchant, she was brought
up in Bedford. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where
she met John Nash, who aroused her interest in wood-engraving, and Mark
Gertler, whose powerful figure paintings influenced her own approach to
portraiture. She rejected Gertler as a lover and set up home with the homosexual
essayist and biographer Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), first at Tidmarsh
Mill, near Pangbourne, Berks, then at Ham Spray, between Newbury and Hungerford,
Berks. In 1921 she married Ralph Partridge, living with him and Strachey
in a ménage à trois, surrounded mainly by literary friends
and receiving little encouragement to exhibit. She turned instead to decorative
work, emulating Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant but in a style more native
in inspiration and more naive. She designed tiles and inn signs, experimented
with painting on glass and tinfoil, decorated furniture and designed the
library at Ham Spray. Emotional relationships further diversified her interests
and much of her creative energy went into her letters
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Portrait
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Julia Strachey,1925
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Hoeing,1912
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Farm
at Watendlath
1921
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