Dorothy Mead
Dorothy Mead (1928 – 12 June 1975) was a British painter, lecturer and member of the
Early life and education
Mead was born in London, England, and adopted at three months old by a family in Walthamstow. Her mother had a florist shop.[3]
She first met
From 1956 until 1959, Mead was a mature student at the
Career
In the
In 1964, Mead arrived as a lecturer at
Mead was President of the London Group from 1971 to 1973, succeeding
Exhibitions and works in museum collections
The collection of the
In 2005, a retrospective exhibition was held thirty years after her death.[14] Despite the esteem she had earned from fellow artists, it was her first ever solo exhibition.[15]
Shortly following her early death on 12 June 1975, it has been claimed that some of Mead's paintings were stolen from a secure warehouse in Essex, although this is disputed and no evidence to substantiate this has ever been published over the decades.
UK Government probate records establish that Mead died without a will. One of Mead's two sisters, Valerie Long, has been a holder of a number of Mead's works and has been represented by Waterhouse & Dodd for sales and disposals. Many other paintings, where not already in the public domain, have been held and sold from another family member's estate in recent years.
A number of her works are held in the Sarah Rose Collection at London South Bank University[16] and an exhibition of her works alongside those of Edna Mann took place at the Borough Road Gallery there in early 2024.[17]
A list of works
- Portrait of Dinora Mendelson Oil on board (1947)
- Looking South Oil on Canvas (1947)
- Menton Harbour Oil on board (1947)
- Looking into the distance Oil on canvas (1947-8)
- Self portrait Oil on board (1953)
- Landscape Oil on board (Circa 1955)
- Self portrait Oil on canvas (Circa 1955)
- Nude study Charcoal on paper (1956)
- Rooftops Oil on board (1956)
- Cityscape Oil on canvas (1956)
- Landscape Charcoal on paper (1957)
- Portrait study Charcoal on paper (1957)
- Still life with flowers Charcoal on paper (1957)
- Self portrait study Charcoal on paper (1958)
- Still life Oil on canvas (1958)
- Still life Charcoal on paper (1959)
- Still life with flowers Charcoal on paper (1959)
- Life Room Oil on board (1959)
- Nude study Charcoal on paper (Oct 1959)
- Reclining with figure Oil on board (1961)
- Seated figure Oil on canvas (1962)
- Afternoon Oil on board (1962)
- Seascape (Holland-on-Sea) Oil on canvas (1966)
- The taking of Christ I Oil on canvas (1966)
- The Temptation (after Michelangelo) Oil on canvas (1966)
- Wheat fields Oil on canvas (1966)
- The taking of Christ II Oil on canvas (1967)[18]
- Arcade Oil on canvas (1967)
- Blue nude Oil on canvas (Circa 1968)
- Overlooking London Oil on canvas (1969)
- Abstract composition Oil on canvas (1969)
- Pieta (after Van Gogh) Oil on canvas (1971)
- Woman in chair Oil on canvas (Circa 1972)
- Life class study Etching (ed.20) (Circa 1973)
Work | Repository | ||
---|---|---|---|
Light on the sea | Government Art Collection | ||
Still life with Aubergine | Government Art Collection | ||
Standing figure | UCL Art Museum | ||
Study after the Antique | UCL Art museum | ||
Still life with Green Pepper | UCL Art museum | ||
Flowers | Arts Council Collection | ||
Portrait | Oil on Canvas | 1962 | The Sarah Rose Collection, London South Bank University |
Vase of Flowers | London South Bank Collection | ||
Vase of Flowers [2] | London South Bank Collection | ||
Figure Composition after Goya | London South Bank Collection | ||
Self-portrait | London South Bank Collection | ||
Standing Female Figure | London South Bank Collection | ||
Meeting | London South Bank Collection | ||
Two Figures | London South Bank Collection | ||
Model Resting | London South Bank Collection | ||
Self Portrait | London South Bank Collection | ||
Hands | London South Bank Collection | ||
Reclining Nude | London South Bank Collection | ||
Reclining Nude [2] | London South Bank Collection | ||
Landscape | London South Bank Collection | ||
Acrobat | London South Bank Collection | ||
Transvestite | London South Bank Collection | ||
Chessboard | Oil on Canvas | 1958 | Tate |
Industrial Landscape, Evening | British Academy | ||
Seascape, Brighton | British Academy | ||
Tombs | Oil on board | 1947 | British Academy |
The Pianist II | British Academy | ||
Reclining Figure | Sarah Rose Collection, London South Bank University. |
References
- ^ "Dorothy Mead (1928–1975)". artfact.com. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "Dorothy Mead (British, 1928–1975)". artnet.com. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ ISBN 1-904537-08-1.
- ^ "The Borough Group". artonlinelimited.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
- ^ Westbury, Douglas (2004–2011). "The Borough Group". cliffholden.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
- ^ "Dorothy Mead". Boundary Gallery. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ Trewhela, Paul (17 September 2002). "Andrew Forge: Erudite painter and critic". The Independent. Retrieved 17 April 2011.[dead link]
- ^ D Sylvester, New Statesman, January 1960,
- ^ "None".
- ^ "History". The London Group. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ Morley College Library Archive, retrieved 22 July 2013
- ^ "Talk by Katy Deepwell, Dorothy Mead and the problem of recognition for a woman artist". Borough Road Gallery. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- Tate Gallery. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ "Dorothy Mead: Retrospective exhibition". Boundary Gallery. 2005. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ "Exhibition of lost paintings by 'overlooked' female artists". London South Bank University. 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Dorothy Mead". Borough Road Collection Archive. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Exhibition of lost paintings by 'overlooked' female artists". London South Bank University. 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Dorothy Mead - Works". Waterhouse & Dodd.
External links
- 29 artworks by or after Dorothy Mead at the Art UK site