Dorothy Thornhill b. 1910

  • Artist
Painter and teacher at the National Art School for almost forty years, Thornhill was the second wife of her former teacher, Douglas Dundas. Painter Brian Dunlop said her drawing, devoid as it was of formula and cliché, was among the finest ever produced in this country.
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Citations

  • William Salmon (September 1977), 'Dorothy Thornhill’, Art and Australia, vol.15 no.1., .

  • Deborah Edwards (1989), 'Stampede of the Lower Gods’, AGNSW catalogue, Sydney.

  • Andrew Sayers (1989), 'Drawing in Australia’, Canberra.

  • Bernard Smith (1953), 'A Catalogue of Australian Oil Paintings in the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1875-1952’, Sydney.

  • (22 April 1947), Daily Telegraph.

  • Dorothy Thornhill, 'Interview with Hazel de Berg’, oral history tapes NLA.

  • Information sourced from Kerry Dundas the artist’s son and Elinor Wrobel.

See also

  • 'Dorothy Thornhill, Study (Nude Self Portrait) c.1930, oil on wood panel (Elinor & Fred Wrobel)'.
  • 'ADD section 9: plate 392'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

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