19 Facts About Dod Procter

Dod Procter, born Doris Margaret Shaw, was an English artist, and the wife of the artist Ernest Procter.

Dod Procter's painting Morning was bought for the public by the Daily Mail in 1927.

Dod Procter was a lifelong artist, active after the untimely death of her husband in 1935.

Dod Procter died in 1972 and is buried next to her husband at St Hilary Church, Cornwall.

Dod Procter was a member of several artists organisations, such as the Newlyn School and became President of St Ives Society of Artists in 1966.

Dod Procter's work was exhibited at the Royal Academy on many occasions.

Doris "Dod Procter" Shaw was born in Hampstead, London in 1890.

Dod Procter's father was a ship's doctor and her mother was a former art student who had studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.

The family moved to Tavistock in Devon, but after the death of her husband, Dod Procter's mother moved the family to Newlyn in 1907.

At Forbes, Dod met her future husband Ernest Procter; they were considered Forbes' star pupils.

In Newlyn, Dod Procter met Laura Knight, who became a lifelong friend and a considerable influence on her career.

Also in 1913, Dod Procter first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art.

The regular letters between the couple show Dod Procter to be depressed at his absence as well as bored and short of money.

When she returned to England, Dod Procter began to focus on painting portraits, usually of young women.

The model for the work was a Newlyn fisherman's 16-year-old daughter, Cissie Barnes, who modelled, every day for five weeks, for Dod Procter's best known work, Morning.

The couple had often staged joint exhibitions at the Leicester Galleries and Dod Procter continued to do so after Ernest's death.

Dod Procter became a full member of the Royal Academy in 1942.

Dod Procter visited Tenerife in 1938 and again, with her friend, the artist Jeanne du Maurier, in 1946.

Dod Procter was a member of, or affiliated with, the following organisations:.