Dora Carrington

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Dora de Houghton Carrington, born in 1893 and died in 1932, was known as Carrington in a sense, especially writer Lytton Strachey.

Early life

Carrington was born in Hereford, England, to railway engineer Samuel Carrington, who worked for the East India Company, and Charlotte (née Houghton). They married in 1888 and had five children together, one of whom Dora was their fourth child. She attended all-girls' Bedford High School, which emphasized art, and her parents paid for her to receive additional lessons in drawing. In the Royal Drawing Society's national school competitions, she received a number of prizes.

Dorothy Brett, Paul Nash, Christopher R. W. Nevinson, and Mark Gertler were among her students at the Slade School of Art in central London, where she later received a scholarship and several other awards; her classmates included Dorothy Brett, Michael Brett, Paul Nash, Christopher R. Nevinson, and Mark Gertler. All of her younger brother John Nash, who aspired to marry her, were in love with her at one time or another. Gertler followed Carrington for a number of years, and the two had a brief sexual relationship during the First World War.

Carrington attended a series of lectures by Mary Sargant Florence on fresco painting in 1912. She and Constance Lane completed three major frescoes for a library at Ashridge, Chilterns, in the ensuing year. With the start of the War, John and Paul Nash's plans for a cycle of frescoes for a church in Uxbridge near London came to naught. Carrington stayed in London after graduating from the Slade but short of funds, and had a studio in Chelsea. Her paintings were shown in a number of group shows, including with the New English Art Club, and she stopped identifying and describing her work. Carrington's parents moved to Ibthorpe House in the village of Hurstbourne Tarrant in Hampshire, and then moved to Ibthorpe House, where she started her studio in a brick outbuilding.

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Career and personal life

Carrington was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group, but she was closely involved with Bloomsbury and, more generally, "Bohemian" attitudes through her long friendship with gay writer Lytton Strachey, whom she first met in 1916. Her cropped pageboy hairstyle (before it was fashionable) and a more androgynous appearance, she was worried about her sexuality; she is suspected of having a dating with Henrietta Bingham. Gerald Brenan had a long friendship with him.

Virginia Woolf wrote about Carrington in her diary in June 1918: "She is peculiar from her mixture of urge and self consciousness." I wonder what she's like: so eager to please, conciliatory, restless, and alert, that one can't help but love her." When Carrington and Lytton Strachey joined Tidmarsh Mill House in Pangbourne, Berkshire, they began constructing a house together. In 1918, Carrington met Ralph Partridge, an Oxford acquaintance of her younger brother Noel. Partridge fell in love with Carrington, and eventually, Carrington married him, not for love, but to keep the family à trois together. Strachey paid for the wedding and accompanied the couple on their honeymoon in Venice. In 1924, the three brothers moved to Ham Spray House in Wiltshire; Strachey purchased the property by Partridge.

Ralph Partridge began an affair with Frances Marshall in 1926 and was destined to live with her in London. His marriage to Carrington was effectively over, but he continued to visit her most weekends. Bernard Penrose, a friend of Partridge and Roland Penrose's younger brother, began an affair with him in 1928. The affair reignited Carrington's artistic ingenuity, and she also worked with Penrose on the development of three films. Penrose, on the other hand, wanted Carrington solely for herself, a promise she refused to make because of her passion for Strachey. Carrington became pregnant and had an abortion, and her last with a man came to an end.

Carrington's work received no critical attention over the course of her lifetime. She may have been discouraged from exhibiting her artwork due to a lack of encouragement. Carrington's work can be described as progressive because it did not fit in with England's traditional art style at the time. Her art, after all, was not considered art. It contained Victorian-style photographs made from coloured tinfoil and paper. Carrington sent pen sketches in letters to her friends with the intention of amusing them. She also made woodblock prints, which were extremely popular. Painting pub signs and murals, ceramics, fireplaces, and tin trunks were among her less well-known pieces.

Carrington was best known for her landscape paintings, which have been attributed to survivalism. Her landscapes blend facts of physical appearance with interior desires and aspirations. Mountain Ranges from Yegen, Andalusia, 1924, one work of art, reveals the change in perspectives. There is an intimate foreground, and there is a view of the mountains in the distance. The main point, which is the middle mountains, is the appearance of human skin. This brings the whole concept of the personal being made public.

For many years, Carrington's art was neglected by the public, and her greatest notoriety was her friendship with Lytton Strachey. On the day she decided to marry Partridge, she wrote to Strachey, Italy, "one of the most moving love letters in the English language." "I cried last night Lytton, although he slept by my side sleeping peacefully," she added. "You do know very well that I love you as something more than a friend, you mythical creature whose kindness to me has made me smile for years, and your presence in my life has been and will always be one of the most significant things in my life," Strachey wrote. "I always wanted to marry Carrington but never did," Strachey said on his deathbed. That sentiment is "not true," according to his biographer, although he may not have said anything more consoling." Strachey died leaving Carrington £10,000 (roughly £240,000 in 1994).

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