Dorr Bothwell

American
(1902–2000)

Magic Puppet
1948

Gouache on paper
36.25 x 29.5 x 1.125 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1991.18

A painter by training, Bothwell’s preferred media were acrylic and oil, but her work in printmaking, ceramics, and collage became just as well-known. Bothwell was known among her colleagues for constantly experimenting with the new styles, themes, and media that she was exposed to during her travels through Europe, Asia, Africa, and Polynesia.

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This object has the following keywords:

• abstract - Genre of visual arts in which figurative subjects or other forms are simplified or changed in their representation so that they do not portray a recognizable person, object, thing, etc.; may reference an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, prefer "abstraction." For 20th-century art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature, use "Abstract (fine arts style)."
• biomorphic
• black
• crescents - Motifs consisting of a curved segment of a circle, often suggesting a crescent moon.
• eyes
• figure
• geometric abstraction
• geometric figures - Definite geometric forms or shapes.
• orange
• puppets - Representations of figures made of wood, cloth, papier-mâché, ceramic, paper, or another material, designed to be animated by human effort, including the use of strings, wires, sticks, or directly by the hand, usually before an audience.
• red
• silver

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Alternate Realities , 9/1/1999 - 1/15/2000
• Collecting on the Edge Part I , 9/15/2018 - 12/15/2018
• Collecting on the Edge Part II , 1/17/2019 - 5/4/2019
• Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction , 8/25/2020 - 7/9/2022

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