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Australian Women
Biographical entry
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Black, Dorothea (Dorrit) Foster (1891 - 1951) |
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| 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. |
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Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 23 December 2008 http://womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE3669b.htm |