1947

Memory Machine

American, 1902 - 2000

California painter and teacher Dorr Bothwell learned how to make screenprints in 1942. Quickly mastering the fundamentals, she adapted the technique to her own playful Surrealist images executed in a bright palette. In her prints of the late 1940s, Bothwell frequently used a frottage technique, rubbing a litho crayon over a coarse textured material (such as sandpaper, lace, or embossed book covers, as seen here) to transfer the texture onto the screen.