Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March, 1932), known generally as Carrington, was a British painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey.
Born in Hereford, England, she attended the all-girls' Bedford High School which emphasized art. Her parents also paid for her to attend extra lessons in drawing. She went to the Slade School of A...
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Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March, 1932), known generally as Carrington, was a British painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey.
Born in Hereford, England, she attended the all-girls' Bedford High School which emphasized art. Her parents also paid for her to attend extra lessons in drawing. She went to the Slade School of Art in London where she subsequently won a scholarship; there her fellow students included Paul Nash, Christopher R.W. Nevinson and Mark Gertler. All at one time or another were in love with her. Gertler in particular pursued Carrington for a number of years, and they had a brief sexual relationship during the years of the First World War.
From her time at the Slade onwards she was commonly known simply by her surname. She was not well known as a painter during her lifetime, as she rarely exhibited and also did not sign her work. She worked for...
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