Dora carrington

The life of artist Dora Carrington was tragically short and her art is often overlooked. Yet she left behind a uniquely brilliant body of work.

Cyclamen in a pot

Trained at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art, Dora Carrington was a unique artistic talent of the early twentieth century.

View Watendlath Farm, Cumberland (1921) By Carrington Dora; oil on canvas; 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.); . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

Photos of Dora Carrington are rare, but here she is holding a cat that looks remarkably like our Freddie. Dora Carrington (known simply as 'Carrington') was, with Vanessa Bell, one of the better female painters of England's early 20th Century. Although not an actual member of London's Bloomsbury Group she will always be associated with them; and especially with Lytton Strachey. Her 1916 portrait of writer Lytton Strachey (above) along with that by Henry Lamb of 1914, are perhaps the two most…

Artist. She was the daughter of Samuel Carrington, a railway engineer, and his wife Charlotte, née Houghton. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and designed the wood-cut decorations for Leonard and Virginia Woolf's first Hogarth publications. She had affairs with the painter Mark Gertler and writer Gerald...

The Cedar Tree at Tidmarsh

Annie Stiles

The Spanish Lady, by Tirzah Garwood Ravilious, 1950-51