This is the first full-length biography of Dorothy Morland
(1906-99), to date the only female director of the Institute of
Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Based on unpublished letters and
other archival sources, as well as interviews and personal
recollections, this book traces her busy private and public life
from the 1930s up until the 1990s. It tells the story of one of the
unacknowledged contributors to the success of the ICA and to the
understanding of the international avant garde in post-war Britain.
As a female arts administrator, Dorothy Morland's work has been
largely overlooked, and this book aims to highlight her significant
contribution to the public understanding of modernism. She was part
of a network which included the Surrealist Roland Penrose, art
critic Herbert Read, architect Jane Drew and wealthy
philanthropists, Peter Gregory and Peter Watson. She was also the
protector and advocate for the Independent Group. Dorothy Morland
always mixed business with pleasure (dancing with Picasso in
Antibes while there on ICA business), and tirelessly oversaw the
chaotic organisation that was the ICA in Dover Street from 1950
until 1968. After leaving the ICA she worked hard on assembly the
organisation's archives and securing their safekeeping at Tate.
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