Dorothy Morland

Dorothy Morland (1906-1999)[1] was the director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) from 1952 to 1968, its first female director.[2] Her biographer Anna Massey contends that Morland was "the protector and advocate of the Independent Group (art movement), which met at the ICA from 1952-5",[3] and that if the Independent Group are considered the "Fathers of Pop" then she could be considered the "Mother of Pop";[4] her obituary in the Guardian referred to her as "'guardian angel' to the pop art movement".[1] During her tenure she also gave early shows to Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock and Henri Cartier-Bresson.[5]

After leaving the ICA she worked on assembling and securing the organisation’s archives,[6] now stored in the archive of Tate Britain as the "Dorothy Morland Collection".[7]

References
  1. Freda Paolozzi, "Dorothy Morland Archived 2021-04-30 at the Wayback Machine" (obituary), The Guardian, 9 September 1999. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  2. "Dorothy Morland: the first female director of the ICA, yet invisible in the history of art". May 24, 2021. Archived from the original on June 29, 2021. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
  3. "SEMINAR: Dorothy Morland: Making ICA History". SAHGB. Archived from the original on 2021-03-12. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  4. Massey, Anne (August 8, 2013). "The Mother of Pop? Dorothy Morland and the Independent Group". Journal of Visual Culture. 12 (2): 262–278. doi:10.1177/1470412913489865. S2CID 144620395. Archived from the original on January 8, 2022. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
  5. "Southbank music curator crosses river to become new ICA director". artreview.com. Archived from the original on 2022-01-07. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
  6. "Dorothy Morland". liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  7. Ram, Rosie (January 8, 2021). "A Question of Dependence". Art History. 44 (2): 424–428. doi:10.1111/1467-8365.12566. S2CID 235532510 – via Wiley Online Library.
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