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About Dorothea Litzinger
Also known as Mrs. John W. Thompson, Dorothea Litzinger was born in Cambria County, Pennsylvania on 20 January 1889. Besides paintings, Litzinger did etchings but her specialty was flower painting. She was active in the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and exhibited her works between 1916 and 1923 at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, at the Society of Independent Artists and at the Corcoran Gallery, however she died at the young age of thirty-six in 1925, a year after her one-woman show at Ralston Gallery in New York City. Litzinger should be described as a post-impressionist. Her typical floral piece is a huge centrally placed arrangement of flowers in a vase. She filled the entire canvas surface and seemed to delight in the repetition of circular shapes, the decorative emphasis of such forms that almost take up the entire surface of the canvas, and the free and expressive use of thick pigments. The aim was never imitative or trompe l’oeil, since everything has the same texture, and the display of paint demonstrates a truly modernist direction. |
Paintings by Dorothea Litzinger
| Still Life with Wild Flowers |
| oil on canvas: 50 x 40 in. |
| unsigned |
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