Dorothy Morland (1906-1999)Freda Paolozzi,
Dorothy Morland
" (obituary), ''The Guardian'', 9 September 1999. Retrieved 8 January 2022. was the director of the

Institute of Contemporary Arts The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA c ...

(ICA) from 1952 to 1968, its first female director. Her biographer Anna Massey contends that Morland was "the protector and advocate of the Independent Group (art movement), which met at the ICA from 1952-5", and that if the Independent Group are considered the "Fathers of Pop" then she could be considered the "Mother of Pop"; her obituary in the ''Guardian'' referred to her as "'guardian angel' to the pop art movement". During her tenure she also gave early shows to Max Ernst,

Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was widely noticed for his " drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a hor ...

and

Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as cap ...

. After leaving the ICA she worked on assembling and securing the organisation’s archives, now stored in the archive of Tate Britain as the "Dorothy Morland Collection".

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