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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Dorr Bothwell
American, 1902
WA-00026325
PaintingColor Field
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
5
Assets Indexed
3
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (3)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Some American Prints, 1949�50, from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
No image
Original Illustrations of Children's Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
Field Verification (3 fields)
3 cross-verified · 0 single-source
- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%✓
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Dorr Bothwell was an American painter and printmaker known for abstract compositions that emerged from her investigation of color relationships and geometric form. Active from the 1930s through the late twentieth century, she developed a methodical approach to abstraction rooted in the study of light, shadow, and spatial intervals. Her work bridges early modernist geometric principles with postwar investigations into color field and optical effects.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Color Field
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Painting
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Artworks (2)
Artwork sources (2)
2 published of 3 catalogued · 2 with image
- MoMA1 publishedof 2 catalogued2 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)
1 entries · 1 sources
- 1947 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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2Movements1
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Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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