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= Dorothy Carleton Smyth 1880-1933 =

Dorothy Carleton Smyth was a Scottish artist. Born Glasgow 1880, died Cambuslang, 1933.

Early Life and Family
Smyth was born in Glasgow in 1880. She was born to Elizabeth Ramage and a jute manufacturer, William Hugh Smyth. Smyth had two sisters; Olive was also a Glasgow artist while Rose was a composer. Smyth lived with her sisters for much of her life.

Education
1885-1893 Colonel Clark's School, Manchester and the Manchester High School for Girls

Manchester School of Art 1893-97, under Walter Crane

GSA 1898 - 1904, director at the time Fra Newbury: drawing, painting, stained glass but focus on theatre and costume design, designed clothes.

Career
1921: Self Portrait. Aged 41. In studio with brushes, canvas and paint palette. Smiles at the onlooker. 'certain trend in female self-portraiture, such as the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Judith Leyster's Self-Portrait, c.1630.' Olive Carleton Smyth presented the painting to Glasgow Museums in 1948.

post graduation - worked at theatre in Stockholm, Paris and London.

1901: Tristan and Iseult stained-glass window exhibited at the Glasgow International Exhibition

Anonymous donor: 1903 travel in Florence and Paris and paid for her to be a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in 1902. Soon after she regularly exhibited with this group as well as exhibiting with her dealer Craibe Angus.

1903: commissioned by Glasgow dealer Craibe Angus, exhibitions in Turin, Cork, Toronto and Budapest. After this period she returned to GSA to teach (1914). Became head of the Commercial Art Department. Remained in this position until 1933. "She taught miniature painting and the history of costume and armour" Sister Olive taught fashion. Smyth was highly praised and supported by Fra Newbury.

Designed costumes for a number of Shakespearean festivals in Stratford

Ceramics.

Book illustrator, Paint Box Pixie BBC

Appointed as director of the GSA after John Revel 1933, was the first woman to be appointed. Died of brain haemorrhage before she was able to take up the position. Obituary: 'The sudden death of Miss Dorothy Carleton Smyth has taken away one of Scotland's most orginal and brilliant artists.'

Taught GSA 1900-1903 then 1914-33