Dorothy Winslade, British 1898-1973
Portrait of a Man, c.1930s

£8,500

Oil on canvas
Signed (lower right)
67cm x 52cm (78cm x 63cm framed)

Winslade was an English-born painter, printmaker, and illustrator known for her regionalist landscapes, cityscapes, portraiture, and still lifes of Northern California. Born on the Isle of Wight, England, Winslade was raised by a watercolorist father who encouraged her artistic pursuits. She formally studied art in London and Paris before immigrating to the United States in 1924. From 1931 to 1935, she attended the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), where she met landscape painter Oswald Kurman, whom she married in 1934.

She exhibited widely throughout Northern California, including at the Oakland Museum of Art and the 1939–1940 Golden Gate International Exposition. She active was in prominent regional organizations such as the San Francisco Art Association and the San Francisco Society of Women Artists. Though largely forgotten after her death as abstract art rose to prominence, her extensive body of work was rescued and rediscovered in the 1980s. Today, her paintings are held in public collections, including the Oakland Museum of California.