Summary
Dorothy Morland (1906-1999)[1] was the director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) from 1952 to 1968, its first female director.[2] Her biographer Anna Massey contends that Morland was "the protector and advocate of the Independent Group (art movement), which met at the ICA from 1952-5",[3] and that if the Independent Group are considered the "Fathers of Pop" then she could be considered the "Mother of Pop";[4] her obituary in the Guardian referred to her as "'guardian angel' to the pop art movement".[1] During her tenure she also gave early shows to Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock and Henri Cartier-Bresson.[5]
After leaving the ICA she worked on assembling and securing the organisation’s archives,[6] now stored in the archive of Tate Britain as the "Dorothy Morland Collection".[7]
References edit
- ^ a b Freda Paolozzi, "Dorothy Morland Archived 2021-04-30 at the Wayback Machine" (obituary), The Guardian, 9 September 1999. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ "Dorothy Morland: the first female director of the ICA, yet invisible in the history of art". May 24, 2021. Archived from the original on June 29, 2021. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
- ^ "SEMINAR: Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History". SAHGB. Archived from the original on 2021-03-12. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ Massey, Anne (August 8, 2013). "The Mother of Pop? Dorothy Morland and the Independent Group". Journal of Visual Culture. 12 (2): 262–278. doi:10.1177/1470412913489865. S2CID 144620395. Archived from the original on January 8, 2022. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
- ^ "Southbank music curator crosses river to become new ICA director". artreview.com. Archived from the original on 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ "Dorothy Morland". liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
- ^ Ram, Rosie (January 8, 2021). "A Question of Dependence". Art History. 44 (2): 424–428. doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12566. S2CID 235532510 – via Wiley Online Library.