Dorothy Larcher was an English designer of textiles, known for the printing workshops she shared with Phyllis Barron in Hampstead and Painswick, Gloucestershire.
10 Facts About Dorothy Larcher
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Dorothy Larcher was born in St Pancras, London, the daughter of William Gustavus Francis Larcher and Eliza Arkell Larcher.
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Dorothy Larcher attended Hornsey School of Art, where she would later teach.
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Dorothy Larcher learned about block printing textiles while traveling in India as a paid companion and assistant to British artist Christiana Herringham.
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Dorothy Larcher's designs tended to be more organic than Barron's geometric prints.
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Dorothy Larcher left her collections of printing blocks and samples to her friend, artist Robin Tanner.
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In 1966, a memorial exhibition of Barron and Dorothy Larcher's works was held at the Royal West of England Academy.
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Fabrics printed by Barron and Dorothy Larcher are in the collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, the Crafts Study Centre in Farnham among other institutions.
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Dorothy Larcher died in 1952, at a nursing home in Stroud.
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Dorothy Larcher had lived and worked in partnership with Phyllis Barron for almost thirty years.