Dorothy Fratt - Cooper (August 10, 1923 - July 7, 2017) was an American artist.
A native of
Washington, D.C., Fratt was the daughter of a photographer and journalist on the staff of ''
The Washington Post''. She received scholarships to the
Mount Vernon College for Women
The Mount Vernon Seminary and College was a private women's college in Washington, D.C. It was purchased by George Washington University in 1999, and is now known as the Mount Vernon Campus of The George Washington University.
Founding of Mount ...
, the
Corcoran School of Art, and the art school at
The Phillips Collection, and she studied painting with
Karl Knaths and
Nikolai Cikovsky. Her first solo exhibition came in 1946, at the Washington City Library, and she has since shown work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. From 1946 to 1951 Fratt taught at Mount Vernon College for Women; in 1958 she settled in
Phoenix,
Arizona, and began teaching color theory and painting privately. She has received many awards, the first coming in a student show at the Corcoran when she was fifteen. Collections with examples of her work include the
Phoenix Art Museum, the
Tucson Museum of Art, and the
Museum of Northern Arizona.
Fratt's non-objective style is derived from
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...
. In 2000 she received the Arizona Governor's Artist of the Year Award for her work. She was married to Curtis Calvin Cooper, Jr., a rancher and farmer, until his death in 2008.
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1923 births
2017 deaths
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women painters
21st-century American painters
21st-century American women painters
Painters from Washington, D.C.
Painters from Arizona
Mount Vernon Seminary and College alumni
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design alumni
George Washington University faculty
Artists from Phoenix, Arizona