| Dorothea Francis | |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Education: | George Bell School |
| Known For: | Painting, Book illustration |
Dorothea Francis (1903 – 1975) was an Australian artist.
A painter and illustrator,[1] Francis studied under Miss Nankivell and Catherine Hardess in Melbourne.[2] She later studied with her sister Margaret at the George Bell School.[3] She exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and the Melbourne Contemporary Artists winning a prize from the former in 1937.[4] She showed alongside other female artists such as Lina Bryans and Isabel Tweddle.[5] Francis illustrated an early Australian version of Alice in Wonderland in 1937. Her first solo exhibition was in Mornington in 1955.[6] She did exhibit with the Victorian Artists Society in 1946 with Dora Serle and Alan Sumner.[7] With her work "Composition" it was said it "weaves the figures of a woman, a child and a dog in a fruit-shop into a rhythmical design, carried out in patches of clear colour."[8]
Francis has works in the collections of the State Library Victoria and the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Australian art and artists file, State Library Victoria