A Woman of Last Century Who Lived by Her Art
Will Banks brought this remarkable woman painter to my attention. As the article says her life reads like a movie. She did a lot of plein air painting, Imagine a woman of simple means but having your work collected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and an ambassador to England. I thought you might enjoy the article as much as I did. https://newspress.com/marie-dorothy-dolph-painted-her-remarkable-life/
Marie Dorothy Dolph (1884-1979) painted until she was age 94, doing canvases of Wyoming ranches and landscapes, the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Mount Hood, Oregon sights, deserts of California and wildlife including buffalo and wild horses.
She studied at the University of Minnesota from 1901 top 1903, having taught school in Wisconsin and North Dakota to finance her education. From 1906 to 1908, she studied at an art school in Milwaukee and at a business college. In 1908, she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and was a student of Alphonse Mucha and Antonin Sterba.
You will have to google her work for a greater variety of her paintings.
I read where one of her paintings went up for bid at an art auction house in 2017 with a high estimate for $120. But it sold for $819! I wanted to go, "Yay, Dorothy! Your work is still appreciated." 😊


Wonderful. Women in art throughout history are finally beginning getting the credit they deserve, I've seen a lot of new publications devoted to telling their stories. I wrote on post on this forum about Paula Modersohn-Becker a German artist from Bremen who unfortunately died young. I visited her museum the other week.
https://www.oliverpyle.com/forum/image-sharing/paula-modersohn-becker