Dorothy Brett

Brett (second from left) with Lady Ottoline Morrell, Mark Gertler and other companions

Dorothy Brett (1883–1977) British-American painter, remembered as much for her social life as for her art. Born into an aristocratic British family she associated with such notables and Virginia Woolf, John Huxley, Gilbert Cannan, and George Bernard Shaw.^[1] Her sister Sylvia became Ranee of Sarawak.

In 1924 "Brett", as she was known, moved to Taos, New Mexico with D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda. She settled permanently in Taos, and became a United States citizen in 1938.

Her work can be found in the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C., in the Millicent Rogers Museum and the Harwood Museum of Art, both in Taos, at the New Mexico Museum of Art , Santa Fe,, the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico and in many private collections.

References

1. ^ Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co, Boston, Ma, 1985

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Name	Brett, Dorothy
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Date of birth	1883
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Date of death	1977
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