Print of the Day!! Wed, March 12, 2025 is by printmaker Dorr Bothwell (1902-2000): "The Juggler"; color screenprint; 1949; 14/45.

Print of the Day!! Saturday, March 12, 2025. is by American printmaker Dorr Bothwell (1902-2000).

The Annex Galleries is once again featuring for sale prints and works of art by women, done during the last 125 years, honoring Women's History Month, 2025. These works will be presented daily for the month of March. ? Most of these artists are not included in standard art books or auctions but their artworks will survive. We have attempted to include biographies for each artist so their remarkable lives are not forgotten.

"The Juggler" is a color serigraph, a screenprint, done in 1949. The image measures 19-1/16 x 14 inches. This impression is pencil signed, titled, dated, and editioned "14/45" by the artist beneath the lower image. It was printed by the artist on a sheet of ivory wove paper that measures 24-1/8 x 19 inches. This image is illustrated in color on page 100 of "Dorr Bothwell: Straws in the Wind - An Artist's Life as told to Bruce Levene."? The gallery inventory number for this work is ABMM 267. ?

This surreal color screenprint (serigraph) by American printmaker Dorr Bothwell is available from the gallery for purchase.

Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out of state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law. Contact the gallery with any condition or other questions. Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out-of-state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law. Check out our virtual booth at the Satellite Print Fair's on-line exhibition: https://onpaper.art/the-annex-galleries?and our on-going website exhibition: 'Women Artists: Known and Once Known.'

Dorr Bothwell was influenced by the Surrealists, Arthur Dow's theory of Notan, and the design concepts of Rudolph Schaeffer. She wrote her own book 'Notan: The Dark-Light Principal of Design.'

This color screenprint is an excellent example of Bothwell's work from the late 1940s. An abstracted "juggler", surrounded by a number of globes, tossed in the air. The composition has tension and balance, yet conveys a sense of movement, stopped in time. The light figure is set against a modulated dark background.

Bothwell wrote: "Everywhere we look we see this principle in action. Trees are not silhouetted against blank air, but hold blue patterns between their leaves while the branches frame living shapes of sky. We delight in the openings between the leaves of a plant or the spokes of the wheel. this endless exchange between form and space excites us. Once more we feel in touch with our world; our aesthetic sense is being fed and we are comforted."

Dorr Bothwell (née Dorris Hodgson Bothwell), painter, printmaker, and educator, was born in San Francisco on 3 May 1902. Her family moved to San Diego in 1911 and Bothwell began her art studies five years later with Anna Valentien. She returned to San Francisco in 1921 and enrolled in the California School of Fine Arts where she was greatly influenced by Gottardo Piazzoni and Rudolph Schaeffer. In May of 1928, at the age of twenty-five years old, Bothwell sailed for American Samoa. Much to her disappointment, she discovered that Pago Pago was a U.S. Naval Station and the navy controlled the movement of the islanders. Bothwell established herself on the island of Tau and became friends with chief Sotoa and his wife. When the United States Navy decreed that she had to leave, chief Sotoa made her a Samoan by having his pattern tattooed on her legs. On her own will, Bothwell left Samoa for Sydney, Australia in December 1929.

From Sydney, she sent a selection of her paintings to Reginald Poland, the director of the San Diego Fine Arts Museum. He gave her an exhibition and many of the pieces sold. On the proceeds from sale of her artwork, Bothwell sailed to Europe where she spent time both in Paris and Berlin returning to San Diego, California in July 1931. Upon her return, Bothwell worked for the Public Works of Art Project (PWA) but the program only lasted a year. In 1934, she moved to La Jolla, California and shortly after worked for Gladding, McBean, one of the California's oldest companies, which began manufacturing Franciscan Pottery in 1934. Bothwell worked briefly for the company and designed at least seventeen different pieces plus variants. She was accepted into the WPA Art Project and completed two murals, created drawings for the De Anza Monument and completed one painting.

In 1940, Bothwell moved to San Francisco with the promise of a studio and a mural job. During the war years, she struggled to find jobs as she had no official birth certificate. In the spring of 1941 she saw an exhibition of the latest printmaking technique, serigraphy, and wanted to learn the process. Bothwell eventually learned it by reading Harry Sternberg's book on the technique as the one local artist, Marion Cunningham, who had mastered the technique would not allow people in her studio. In 1944, Bothwell was hired to teach design and color at the California School of Fine Arts and she taught there off and on from 1944 to 1961. In the "off" times, she traveled.

In 1968, Bothwell and Marlys Mayfield co-wrote the book Notan: On the Interaction of Positive and Negative Spaces, which encompassed the principles developed in her teaching. She received the Abraham Rosenberg Fellowship in 1949, the San Francisco Women in the Arts award in 1979, and was twice awarded Pollock-Krasner grants. Bothwell was a member of and exhibited with the San Francisco Art Association. Dorr Bothwell died in Fort Bragg, California on 24 September 2000 at the age of ninety-eight.

To purchase this work, see other works or read a biography for Dorr Bothwell use this link to our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/artist/242/Bothwell/Dorr

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