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- 1 2 Imperial War Museum. "Correspondence with artists, Doris Blair". Imperial War Museum . Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- 1 2 3 David Buckman (1998). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-95326-095-X.
- ↑ Vivienne Pollock. "The Doris V. Blair Collection of Second World War watercolours". National Museums NI. Retrieved 23 September 2020.