Dora Carrington

Sitterback to top

• Dora Carrington (1893-1932), Artist. Sitter associated with 15 portraits, Artist associated with 9 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Dora Carrington (1893-1932), Artist. Artist associated with 9 portraits, Sitter associated with 15 portraits.

This portraitback to top

This self-portrait is undated, but is thought to have been made around 1910. In that year Carrington entered the Slade, dropped her first name (which she hated), and cropped her hair - thus becoming one of the first 'cropheads', as Virginia Woolf called them. The portrait depicts Carrington prior to her adoption of the short hairstyle that became something of a trademark. It thus shows her around the age of seventeen, though the features are rendered with a penetrating sensitivity that belies the artist's youth. Portraits of Carrington are rare, the most notable example being the gouache by Mark Gertler dated 1912, which is in a private collection.

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• Life lines: Recently acquired 20th Century drawings (31 October 2009 - 25 April 2010)
• Portraits on paper (29 July 2006 - 3 December 2006)