Mendocino Art Center presents Dorr Bothwell’s African Sketchbook
MENDOCINO » The Mendocino Art Center presents “Dorr Bothwell and the African Sketchbook,” an exclusive sale of the Mendocino heritage artist’s original works, Feb. 5 through March 31.
The online fundraising exhibition at MendocinoArtCenter.org will feature works inspired by Bothwell’s African travels in 1966 and 1967, and also offers a rare viewing of her “African Sketchbook,” with artwork she created during her several months stay in Nigeria and her subsequent trip crossing the Sahara to Tunisia.
The sketchbook was edited and published by Monica Hannasch in 2000 as a posthumous tribute to her longtime friend.
For this limited time, all of Bothwell’s artwork is priced 10 percent off — with all proceeds benefiting the Mendocino Art Center.
Bothwell (1902-2000) was an inspiring artist, teacher and coauthor, with Marlys Mayfield, of “Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design.” Her artwork is in the collections of major museums in the United States and Europe.
In addition to her richly symbolic paintings in oils and acrylics, her watercolors and woodblock prints, she pioneered the technique of the serigraph on the west coast. Bothwell taught design at the California School
sons School of Design and was an early artist and instructor of the Mendocino Art Center, teaching for more than 40 years.
The Mendocino Art Center remains open online for art classes, exhibitions, events and the gallery store, but is currently closed to inperson experiences.