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Dorothy Morland began her working life as an unpaid administrator at London's Institute of Contemporary Art and eventually became its Director. After the war, through her friendship with the architects Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, she met one of the ICA's founders, Peter Gregory, and instantly became involved with the organisation. An integral part of the everyday working life at the ICA, Dorothy once commented 'The ICA was like a railway station. People passed one another without realising that some would one day be famous and some would change the face of art beyond all recognition' (see Fifty years of the ICA, A chronical of the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1997, p. 3).
Born in Hanwell, Middlesex in 1906, Dorothy Morland was educated at a French convent in St. Leonard's, she then enrolled at the Royal College of Music. After leaving the RCM Dorothy contracted tuberculosis and was consequently sent to recuperate in Switzerland. It was there that she met her consultant, Andrew Morland, whom she eventually married.
The Morlands became increasingly interested in the well-being of artists, musicians and people that worked for the ICA. She was also close friends with many important artists of the day and her obituary in The Guardian in June 1999 showed a photograph of Dorothy Morland at The Venice Biennale in 1948 with Roland Penrose, Henry Moore and Peter Gregory (see fig. 1). It was through her husband that Dorothy met Mark Gertler who was a patient at the Mundesley sanitorium where Dr. Morland was a specialist. Gertler was recovering there from a bad bout of tuberculosis and this, mingled with his financial worries, had brought about the onset of depression, but he managed to make a reasonable recovery partly due to the Morlands. Ian Collins comments 'At Mundesley Gertler completed at least one painting of the local landscape ... It was fortunate that his specialist, Dr. Andrew Morland, already admired his work - and the pair struck up a firm friendship. Gertler persuaded Morland to travel to Italy, to confirm that an old chum, the novelist D.H. Lawrence had TB. The doctor and his wife, Dorothy, had Gertler to stay with them at Mundesley at least twice, in 1930 and 1938, and they in turn became regular attenders at his Thursday social evenings in Hampstead. They acquired his picture Sanitorium Garden in Norfolk and in 1937 Gertler painted [the present work] a portrait of Dorothy Morland wearing a mantilla.' (see I. Collins, loc. cit.).
In a Portrait of Dorothy Morland the subject sits resplendant, her dark, thickly painted hair, curling out from underneath a large mantilla which dominates much of the picture. The dappled transparent quality of the white lace contrasts with the blocked colours and shapes of the background. Gertler has painted the features finely but with his characteristic boldness and broad handling. Dorothy is striking in appearance, both elegant and contemplative, as she gazes out of the canvas.
Born in Hanwell, Middlesex in 1906, Dorothy Morland was educated at a French convent in St. Leonard's, she then enrolled at the Royal College of Music. After leaving the RCM Dorothy contracted tuberculosis and was consequently sent to recuperate in Switzerland. It was there that she met her consultant, Andrew Morland, whom she eventually married.
The Morlands became increasingly interested in the well-being of artists, musicians and people that worked for the ICA. She was also close friends with many important artists of the day and her obituary in The Guardian in June 1999 showed a photograph of Dorothy Morland at The Venice Biennale in 1948 with Roland Penrose, Henry Moore and Peter Gregory (see fig. 1). It was through her husband that Dorothy met Mark Gertler who was a patient at the Mundesley sanitorium where Dr. Morland was a specialist. Gertler was recovering there from a bad bout of tuberculosis and this, mingled with his financial worries, had brought about the onset of depression, but he managed to make a reasonable recovery partly due to the Morlands. Ian Collins comments 'At Mundesley Gertler completed at least one painting of the local landscape ... It was fortunate that his specialist, Dr. Andrew Morland, already admired his work - and the pair struck up a firm friendship. Gertler persuaded Morland to travel to Italy, to confirm that an old chum, the novelist D.H. Lawrence had TB. The doctor and his wife, Dorothy, had Gertler to stay with them at Mundesley at least twice, in 1930 and 1938, and they in turn became regular attenders at his Thursday social evenings in Hampstead. They acquired his picture Sanitorium Garden in Norfolk and in 1937 Gertler painted [the present work] a portrait of Dorothy Morland wearing a mantilla.' (see I. Collins, loc. cit.).
In a Portrait of Dorothy Morland the subject sits resplendant, her dark, thickly painted hair, curling out from underneath a large mantilla which dominates much of the picture. The dappled transparent quality of the white lace contrasts with the blocked colours and shapes of the background. Gertler has painted the features finely but with his characteristic boldness and broad handling. Dorothy is striking in appearance, both elegant and contemplative, as she gazes out of the canvas.