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Dorothy Mead was born on 1928, is a British painter (1928–1975). Discover Dorothy Mead's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

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Timeline

1944

She first met David Bomberg when he was teaching at the South east Essex School of Art at Dagenham School of Art in 1944.

1945

She followed him when he moved to the City Literary Institute in London and then to the Borough Polytechnic where she studied under Bomberg from 1945 to 1951.

1946

Mead was a founder member of the Borough Group in 1946 together with other pupils of Bomberg including Cliff Holden.

1956

From 1956 until 1959, Mead was a mature student at the Slade School of Art.

Here she met the artist and teacher Andrew Forge.

1959

She had a major influence on students such as Patrick Procktor and Mario Dubsky and was the first woman president of the student annual exhibiting society, Young Contemporaries (later renamed New Contemporaries) in 1959.

The previous year, the Slade awarded her the Figure Painting Prize, and the Steer Prize.

In 1959 she was asked to leave the Slade, in spite of her award-winning work, because she refused to sit the course on perspective.

She believed - with Bomberg - that the stylistic approach was invalid.

Her thesis, explaining her view was not accepted by the principal, William Coldstream.

1960

Mead joined the London Group of artists in 1960.

The New Statesman, the left-wing magazine singled her out, when critic David Sylvester remarked she "tends to affirm the supremacy of light, as women's painting often does."

Holden, her partner said "Dorothy sticks to her principals, but like myself and Bomberg was an outsider".

1962

Mead was also a part-time lecturer at Chelsea College of Art in London between 1962 and 1964.

She was a feminist with a principled individualism - she once remarked that if she changed her name to George, she stood a greater chance of selling her work!

The collection of the Tate Gallery and other art museums include work by Mead.

1963

Mead spent two spells teaching at Morley College: between 1963 and 1965 she taught 'Painting', and from 1973 to 1975 she taught 'Drawing & Painting' ("for advanced students of some considerable experience") and 'Improvisation from the Model' in the Morley Summer Painting School.

1964

In the Arts Council England series of touring exhibitions, Six Young Painters, Mead exhibited in 1964 with other artists including Peter Blake, William Crozier, David Hockney, Bridget Riley and Euan Uglow.

In 1964, Mead arrived as a lecturer at Goldsmiths College "like a breath of fresh air" according to pupil and painter Barry Martin.

She swept aside the old gentlemanly bohemian and class pretensions that she thought "stubborn preconceptions".

Her family saw her "living on the edge" of reality all the time.

She worked in a garret studio in Ladbroke Grove, yet went up to Berkeley Square to buy paints.

She was described by Dennis Creffield, artist and fellow student of Bomberg, as having an "abundant personality...a great love of art...stylish in appearance."

1970

Her daring, precarious act of existential expressionism can be seen in The Acrobat, an exhibition of 1970 at Borough Road Gallery.

1971

Mead was President of the London Group from 1971 to 1973, succeeding Andrew Forge, a progressive art historian with whom she was long associated, and also had an affair with.

1975

Dorothy Mead (1928 – 12 June 1975) was a British painter, lecturer and member of the London Group of artists.

Mead was born in London, England, and adopted at three months old by a family in Walthamstow.

Her mother had a florist shop.

Shortly following her early death on 12 June 1975, it has been claimed that some of Mead's paintings were stolen from a secure warehouse in Essex, although this is disputed and no evidence to substantiate this has ever been published over the decades.

A number of her works are held in the Sarah Rose Collection at London South Bank University and an exhibition of her works alongside those of Edna Mann took place at the Borough Road Gallery there in early 2024.

UK Government probate records establish that Mead died without a will.

One of Mead's two sisters, Valerie Long, has been a holder of a number of Mead's works and has been represented by Waterhouse & Dodd for sales and disposals.

Many other paintings, where not already in the public domain, have been held and sold from another family member's estate in recent years.

1991

Mead's paintings were shown at the 1991 exhibition Bomberg and his Legacy, held in Eastbourne at the Towner Art Gallery.

2005

In 2005, a retrospective exhibition was held thirty years after her death.

Despite the esteem she had earned from fellow artists, it was her first ever solo exhibition.