Dorothy B.M. Kerr

(Frances) Dorothy Beresford Maule Kerr (fl.1900s) was part of a well-to-do military family—her sitters include captains and colonels, and her descendants include Royal Marine pilot Guy Beresford Kerr 'Griff' Griffiths (who gained notoriety as a prisoner of war for using his artistic skills to fake sketches and forge documents to misinform Nazi intelligence). Dorothy appears to have attended Art School and had aspirations to be a professional artist, prior to her her marriage to William Arthur Griffiths of Alverstoke. Her work aptly embodies the spirit of self-betterment that characterised the so-called 'New Women' of the Edwardian era—free-spirited, fierce women, emboldened by the suffragists, who broke apart the traditional female roles.

Kerr's work shows the contemporaneous influence of the 'Gibson Girl' drawings of the American artist Charles Dana Gibson. Like Gibson's girls, Kerr's women are bold and beautiful, and are engaged in activities which were previously the preserve of men—playing sport, taking photographs, doing the accounts. Unlike the idealised 'Gibson Girl' vision, however, Kerr's work goes further to engage with social, feminist politics of the day. Her drawings also show influences of fashionable Art Nouveau and Japonisme styles of the day.

Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Lady in Motoring Bonnet – c.1902 pen & ink drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Art Nouveau Girl with Red Bonnet – c.1902 gouache painting

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Scene from 'Daisy' by Susan Bogert Warner –c.1902 watercolour

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Lady in Chiffon Dress – c.1902 watercolour painting

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Young Lady with her Suitor – c.1902 watercolour

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Woman by Dining Table – c.1902 watercolour painting

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Lady in Evening Dress – c.1902 watercolour painting

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Young Lady with her Suitor – c.1902 watercolour

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Ladies in Day Dress – c.1902 watercolour painting

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Woman in Profile – c.1902 pen & ink drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Couple in an Interior – c.1902 watercolour painting

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Man 'Listen to me you chaps' – 1902 watercolour

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Lady in a Merry Widow Hat –c.1902 pen & ink drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Lady in Gibson Girl Blouse – c.1902 watercolour

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Seated Edwardian Young Lady – c.1902 graphite drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Portrait of Lady 'Ursula' –c.1902 pen & ink drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Scene, Child in Sick Bed – c.1905 gouache painting

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Society, Hyde Park, London –c.1902 graphite drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Mrs Curtoys Going to Court (Edward VII) – c.1902 drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Mandolin Player Study – Original c.1902 graphite drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Melodrama 'The Lost Keys' – c.1902 graphite drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Portrait Studies – Original c.1902 graphite drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Lady in Bustle Dress – c.1902 pen & ink drawing

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Edwardian Maid with Children – c.1902 watercolour painting

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Dorothy B.M. Kerr, Miniature Portrait of an Edwardian Woman – c.1902 watercolour

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