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Dorothy Adamson

Hello, I saw your Teahouse post about an English article for Dorothy Adamson. Do you happen to have access to newspapers.com, or another service for obtaining old newspaper articles? Newspapers.com has mostly United States newspapers, but I did a search for Dorothy Adamson, in 1934, location England, and found a June 1, 1934 article in the Liverpool Echo that has some useful information about the artist. I did a search at Google Books and found information about her in a 1924 issue of The Studio. Google Books also brought up some books she illustrated, which might be useful to show her art work was being purchased. I believe enough references could be found for an English article about her.

I know nothing about her, so I'm not interested in writing about her, but if you'd like me to send you reference citations, and basic information found at what I consider to be good references, I could do so, though it would take me a few days to get everything together. You probably don't want to share your email address with a stranger, so I can't send you the entire Liverpool Echo article, but I can write up the gist of the article. Let me know if you want some help with gathering references. Karenthewriter (talk) 17:36, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Karenthewriter Thanks for your kind and helpful message and your really useful references. I have access to Find My Past's newspaper index but hadn't come across the Liverpool Echo article you mentioned. I'll have another search and see if I can find it. I haven't ever used Google Books either, so that's a great tool, and I'll follow it up. I found the Teahouse comments and suggestions helpful in the context of understanding more about Wikipedia's principles etc (I'm still pretty new to it all) and am really digesting that and what, if anything, I might do regarding an article. I really appreciate your offer to help with gathering references, I don't want to waste your time doing that if I decide not to draft an article though. What I've done for the moment is pass on the facts I have to ArtistsBiographies.com so the correct info is available online somewhere. May be I can get in touch if I decide to draft an article please? Thanks again. Buckland1072 (talk) 20:51, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello Buckland. I offered help in collecting references, and that offer hasn't gone away.

The Liverpool Echo article on Dorothy Adamson is in the June 1, 1934 issue, page 13. The title is Where Are The "Lost" Pictures? – A Woman Artist's Works For Liverpool, written by the Echo Art Critic. Here is the copy:

Five months ago Merseyside and North Wales lost a brilliant woman artist. An exhibition of her work is now included in that of the Liverpool Academy (of which she was a member) at the Bluecoat Chambers.

Miss Dorothy Adamson, R.I., R.O.I., died at a comparatively early age. A self-portrait in perfect tone and color – one of those already purchased from the exhibition – shows her in 1927, when she would be, perhaps, about 27 years of age.

To-day the city of Liverpool acquired, for the permanent collection at the Walker Art Gallery, two of her works from the exhibition – "Goats," priced at 30 pounds [my computer doesn't have the pound symbol] and "Grouse," priced at 15 guineas.

In the exhibition at the Bluecoat there are fifty-seven works. How they were accumulated is a surprising story.

First of all, at her home at Bettas-y-Coed were discovered about a dozen pictures in frames.

AS SHE HAD LEFT THEM

But Miss Adamson had been a prolific worker, and this did not satisfy the president of the Liverpool Academy, Mr. R. G. Hinchliffe, who, thereupon, urged Mr. Adamson, the artist's brother, to do all he could to find more. In her studio some were unearthed, while others were found at the houses of friends, she had visited.

Gems of her work, they were found as she herself had left them, not only torn off their wooden stretchers, but piled up face to face and some tightly rolled up – a dire fate for paintings in oil.

Mr. Hinchliffe parted paintings, and even ironed some of them out.

Yet many large paintings had, apparently, disappeared. Even her big study of cattle, which had been hung on the line at the Royal Academy, was not be be found.

AMAZING FACILITY

It was concluded that either the artist had over-painted her own work or had herself destroyed it. "You see," Mr. Will Penn told me, "Dorothy Adamson had no sense of the value of her own work. She simply would not take her extraordinary ability seriously. She would actually 'knock off' an elaborate animal study in a few hours, and do it perfectly."

With water-color and crayon, as with oil, Miss Adamson worked magic, as so many of the present exhibit show; and there is no question that the two little masterpieces now acquired by the City of Liverpool indeed will "live."

GEORGE WHITFIELD Karenthewriter (talk) 22:57, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks very much. That's a sad story. Some of the pictures I've seen online are so lovely. Best wishes Buckland1072 (talk) 16:39, 12 August 2022 (UTC)