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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Dorr Bothwell
American, 1902
PaintingColor Field
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None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
5
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3
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Some American Prints, 1949�50, from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Original Illustrations of Children's Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
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Dorr Bothwell was an American painter and printmaker known for abstract compositions that emerged from her investigation of color relationships and geometric form. Active from the 1930s through the late twentieth century, she developed a methodical approach to abstraction rooted in the study of light, shadow, and spatial intervals. Her work bridges early modernist geometric principles with postwar investigations into color field and optical effects.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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