Dorothy Stewart

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Dorothy Newkirk Stewart was an American printer, printmaker and artist.

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Early life and education

She was born April 8, 1891, in Philadelphia to Dr. William Shaw and Delia Allman Stewart. Her parents sent her and her sister Margretta to a private school in Philadelphia.

Stewart started making art in 1925. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, her focus being on pantomime, stage design, and fresco painting. In 1921, she traveled to Italy, Greece and France, where she became a student of the American School of Fine Arts.

Career

Stewart became well known for her drawings, paintings, block prints and linoleum prints. Dorothy signed her prints with the initials, D.N.S.

Dorothy Stewart and her sister Margretta Dietrich settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1925. [1]

In 1936, she was considered one of the members of the WPA Artist Collective in New Mexico. She painted a mural for the entrance of Albuquerque's Little Theatre depicting a clash between Christians and Moors portrayed in New Mexican folk plays. [2]

She acquired a type and printing press from a defunct Spanish language newspaper in Espanola in 1948, and this is when Dorothy started producing vibrant multicolored illustrated books. Stewart was one of the first women to run a private printing press in the Southwest. (Smith, 94)

Of the two sisters, Dorothy was more social. She built a studio east of El Zaguán where the artist hosted concerts, lectures, shadow puppet plays, and exhibitions representing her wide range of interest. (Smith, 96) El Zaguán still retains an artist residency program with exhibits under the Historic Santa Fe Foundation.

Death

In the winter of 1955, with a grave medical condition, Stewart was accompanied by her dear friend Maria Chabot to Oaxaca, Mexico where Dorothy was quoted as saying, “If I have to be sick, I would rather be sick here where I hear the street sounds of Mexico.”[ citation needed ] As Dorothy's condition worsened, Chabot moved her to the American British Cowdry Hospital in Mexico City, where Stewart died of a brain hemorrhage on December 24, 1955.

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References

  1. Fisher, Reginald (1947). An Art Directory of New Mexico. Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico. p. 52.
  2. Lopez, Josie (2016). The Carved Line : Block Printmaking in New Mexico. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. p. 121. ISBN   9780890136218.

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