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Britain’s first ‘art directress’? Unforgetting the unforgettable Dorothy Braham

By Richard Farmer Dorothy Braham (The Sphere, 29 August 1931) Born in London in 1890 and killed in a car crash in 1934, Dorothy Braham was, among other things, a Slade-educated artist, children’s book author, postcard illustrator, portraitist, animator, theatrical set designer and cinematic art director. The breadth of her interests might go some wayContinue reading “Britain’s first ‘art directress’? Unforgetting the unforgettable Dorothy Braham”