Anne Dunn

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Anne Dunn (born 4 September, 1929) is an English artist [1] associated with the second generation of the School of London.

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Background and education

Born in London, England, Dunn is the daughter of the Canadian steel magnate Sir James Dunn, 1st baronet (1874–1956) and his second wife, Irene Clarice Richards, a former musical-comedy actress who had previously been married to Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry.

Dunn studied in London at Chelsea School of Art (1949–50) and at the Anglo-French Centre (1952) before going to the Académie Julian in Paris, France in 1952. [2] [3]

Career

From 1964 to 1968, she edited the journal Art and Literature with Rodrigo Moynihan, Sonia Orwell and John Ashbery.[ citation needed ]

In 1990, Dunn had a solo show at the Christopher Hull Gallery in London.[ citation needed ] Her most recent solo show was in 2005 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

Dunn's first husband was the artist Michael Wishart (1928–1996); they were married for 10 years before divorcing, and had one son. Michael Wishart's autobiography High Diver (1977) is dedicated to her and gives a picture of the artist as a young woman.[ citation needed ]

Immediately after she and Wishart divorced in 1960, Dunn married Anglo-Spanish artist Rodrigo Moynihan (1910–1990), as his second wife. They had a son together and Dunn gained a stepson through the marriage. [ citation needed ]

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References

  1. Schuyler, James; Pettet, Simon (1998). Selected art writings. David R. Godine Publisher. p. 243. ISBN   978-1-57423-076-5.
  2. "Anne Dunn". Gallery 78. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  3. "Anne Dunn". Gallery 78. Retrieved 31 May 2022.