Dorr Bothwell

Bothwell was born in San Francisco and studened at the California School of Fine Arts under Gottardo Piazzoni and Rudolf Schaeffer. She traveled widely between 1928 and 1932 (including a lengthy stay in Samoa), when she settled in San Diego. In 1934 she moved to Los Angeles where she joined the post-surrealist group around artists Helen Lundeberg and Lorser Feitelson. She painted murals for the Federal Arts Project and learned screen printing. With Marlys Mayfield she wrote Notan: On the Interaction of Positive and Negative Space (1968), an influential design text.