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Black, Dorothea (Dorrit) Foster (1891 - 1951)

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Artist

Born: 23 December 1891 Burnside, South Australia. Died: 13 September 1951 Adelaide, South Australia.

Dorrit Black held her first solo exhibition in 1930 at the Macquarie Galleries in Sydney. She established the Modern Art Centre to promote and teach modernism, and in 1944 founded Group 9 as a forum for modernist artists.

Published Resources

See also

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]

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Prepared by: Barbara Lemon
Created: 26 September 2008
Modified: 27 October 2008

Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site
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Updated: 23 December 2008
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