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English painter

Dorothy Burroughes

Born	Dorothy Mary L. Burroughes 1883 London, England
Died	1963 (aged 79–80)
Education	Slade School of Art Heatherley School of Fine Art
Known for	Illustrations, printmaking

Dorothy Mary L. Burroughes (1883 – 18 July 1963) was a British artist known as a painter, illustrator and linocut artist. She designed posters and wrote and illustrated a series of children's books.

Biography

Burroughes was born and lived most of her life in London, although in her later years she lived near Henley-on-Thames. She studied at the Slade School of Art and at Heatherley's in London before furthering her studies in Germany. Burroughes produced illustrations for a number of magazines including Bystander, Sketch and the Illustrated London News. She produced posters for the London Underground, including the poster For the Zoo in the style of a Japanese colour woodcut. Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s she wrote and illustrated a series of children's books, often on animal themes. Animals were also a recurring theme in the prints she produced as were cloud formations. Her prints often featured towering banks of cumulus clouds above an English landscape. Burroughes also illustrated books by other writers, notably The Story of the Red Deer which was published by Gregynog Press in 1936 and for which she produced eleven colour prints.

Throughout the 1920s Burroughes lived with her partner Vere Hutchinson, an author who had five books published but died in 1931 after a protracted illness. Burroughes was elected a member of the Society of Women Artists in 1923 and became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1925. She exhibited with the Fine Art Society in London and both the London Transport Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum hold examples of her work.

Books illustrated

Books illustrated by Burroughes include,

Queer Beasts at the Zoo by G Davidson, Allen & Unwin, 1927
Queer Birds at the Zoo by G Davidson, Allen & Unwin, 1927
Gun Fodder by J. F. Snook, Allen & Unwin, 1930
The Animal Lovers' Calendar, by Jenkins, 1930
Fifty-One New Nursery Rhymes by Rose Fyleman, Methuen, 1931
Tinkle the Cat by NC James, Dent, 1932
Gardener's Frenzy by M Pallister, Methuen, 1933
The Story of the Red-Deer by JW Fortescue, Gregynog Press, 1936

Books written and illustrated

Books written and illustrated by Burroughes include,

The Amazing Adventures of Little Brown Bear, Methuen, 1930
Jack Rabbit, Detective, Methuen, 1931
Journeyings of Selina Squirrel and her Friends, Methuen, 1931
The Odd Little Girl, Methuen, 1932
Captain Seal's Treasure Hunt, Bodley Head, 1933
More Adventures of the Odd Little Girl, Bodley Head, 1933
Harris the Hare and His Own True Love, Bodley Head, 1933
The Strange Adventures of Mary Jane Stubbs, Bodley Head, 1933
The House the Moles Built, Hutchinson, 1939
The Little Black Rabbit, Hutchinson, 1940
Teddy, the Little Refuge Mouse, Hutchinson, 1942
The Pigs who Sailed Away, Hutchinson, 1944
The Magic Herb, Hutchinson, 1945
The Conceited Frog, Hutchinson, 1949
The Little White Elephant, Hutchinson, 1953

References

^ Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
"Dorothy Mary Burroughes". Twentieth Century Posters. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
^ Robin Garton (1992). British Printmakers 1855-1955 A Century of Printmaking from the Etching Revival to St Ives. Garton & Co / Scolar Press. ISBN 0-85967-968-3.
^ David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
^ "Dorothy Burroughes". London Transport Museum. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
David Bownes (2018). Poster Girls. london transport museum. ISBN 978-1-871829-28-0.
^ Alan Horne (1994). The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-1082.
Emily Hamer (1996). Britannia's Glory: A History of Twentieth Century Lesbians. Cassell. ISBN 978-1-4742-9279-5.
"Dorothy Burroughes". Victoria & Albert Museum. Retrieved 27 February 2019.

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