Nationality English Role Artist | Name Dod Procter Known for Painting Education Academie Colarossi | |
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Full Name Doris Margaret Shaw Elected President of St Ives Society of Artists (STISA) Died July 31, 1972, Redruth, United Kingdom | ||
Painting serenity the art of dod procter
Dod Procter (born Doris Margaret Shaw, 1890–1972) was an English artist, and wife of artist Ernest Procter. Her painting, Morning, was bought for public consumption by the Daily Mail in 1927.
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- Painting serenity the art of dod procter
- Peintures de dod procter 0001 wmv johann christian bach
- Personal life and education
- Career
- Membership
- List of works
- Museum and Gallery Holdings
- References
Procter and her husband attended art schools in England and in Paris together, where they were both influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism movements. They also worked together at times, sometimes sharing commissions and other times showing their work together in exhibitions. Procter was a lifelong artist, active after the untimely death of her husband in 1935. She was a member of several artists organisations, such as the Newlyn School and became President of St Ives Society of Artists (STISA) in 1966. Her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy on many occasions.
Peintures de dod procter 0001 wmv johann christian bach
Personal life and education
Doris "Dod" Shaw was born in Hampstead, London in 1890. At the age of 15 she moved to Newlyn with her mother and brother so that she could study at the Forbes School. The Shaws stayed with two other Forbes students, Dod's cousin Cicely Jesse and another woman artist, Tennyson Jesse, at Myrtle Cottage. At Forbes Miss Shaw met her future husband Ernest Procter; They were "amongst the Forbes' star pupils."
In 1910 and 1911 Dod Shaw and Ernest Procter studied in Paris at Atelier Colarossi. Dod and Ernest were both influenced by Impressionism and Post-impressionism and the artists that they met in France, such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne. In 1912 the couple married at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris. One year later their son Bill was born.
They stayed in Paris until 1918, during the war Ernest served in France working for the Friends' Ambulance Unit.Newlyn was Procter's home for most of her working life. Ernest died unexpectedly while travelling in 1935. Three years later Dod moved to be closer to her friend Althea Garstin. After Ernest's death, Procter travelled to the United States, Canada, Jamaica and Africa. She died in 1972 and is buried next to her husband at St Hilary Church.
Career
In 1913, Dod Procter first exhibited at the royal academy of art. After the war, Dod and Ernest Procter returned to Newlyn. Dod and Ernest Procter were commission to decorate the Kokine Palace, Rangoon in 1919 and 1920. The Procters created designs for etched crystal. From around 1922, Procter painted a series of simplified, monumental images of young women of her acquaintance. They were typified by the volume of the figures, brought out by her use of light and shadow.
Throughout the 1920s Dod Procter painted the figure, usually single female figures, sometimes nude, others in softly draped clothes. Of one of these paintings, Morning, was bought by the Daily Mail for the Tate Gallery collections, which made her a household name of the day.
When her painting, Morning, in this series, was displayed at the 1927 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, it was voted Picture of the Year and bought by the Daily Mail for the Tate gallery, where it now hangs. Procter sold the work for £300, but could have achieved ten times that amount. Prior to its permanent home in the Tate, its popularity resulted in its showing in New York, and then a two-year tour of Britain.
Both public and critics responded to its "sensuous but sombre style" which evoked the west Cornish "silver light". Frank Rutter, art critic of The Sunday Times, said in 1927 that Morning was "a new vision of the human figure which amounts to the invention of a twentieth century style in portraiture" and "She has achieved apparently with consummate ease that complete presentation of twentieth century vision in terms of plastic design after which Derain and other much praised French painters have been groping for years past." The model for the work was a Newlyn fisherman's 16-year-old daughter, Cissie Barnes.
In 1938, she decided to move to Zennor, England near one of her friend Alethea Garstin. The subjects of her pictures are largely portraits and flowers. Althea Garstin's influence was realized in Procter's work in the latter part of her career. She became a full member of the Royal Academy in 1942. In 1945 she illustrated a colored frontispiece and line drawings for a story by Clare Collas, A Penny for the Guy. Dod Procter and friend, Jeanne Du Maurier traveled to Tenerife, Spain in 1946, and in 1948 they went to Africa. During the 1950s she spent some time in Jamaica where she painted mainly children.
During her lifetime and after her death her work fell out of favour.
Membership
She was a member or affiliated with the following organisations:
List of works
The following are a list of some of Procter's work :
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Selected Current Holdings: