Dorothy Ochtman (March 8, 1892 - April 26, 1971) was an American painter. Daughter of the Dutch-born painter

Leonard Ochtman Leonard Ochtman (October 21, 1854 – October 27, 1934) was a Dutch- American Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes. He was a founding member of the Cos Cob Art Colony and the Greenwich Society of Artists. Biography and ca ...

and his wife, Mina, Ochtman was born in

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, and probably had her earliest instruction from her parents. She received a degree from

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in 1914, and performed her graduate studies at

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United St ...

; she also attended the school of the

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...

from 1916 until 1919. A

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

allowed her to study in

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at the École Americaine des Beaux-Arts, and from 1927 to 1928 she was at the Académie Despujols. She showed in many annual exhibitions at the National Academy, beginning in 1918 and ending in 1950; she won prizes in 1921 and 1924, becoming an associate member in 1929, and becoming a full member in the year of her death. She also showed three times at the

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, and her work was included in many other exhibits throughout her career. She married an electrical engineer, William A. DelMar, in 1945. In later years she lived in

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, where she died. Stylistically, Ochtman worked in a

post-Impressionist Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...

style. Her work consisted largely of flower pieces,

still-life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, boo ...

s, and portraits. She was represented by the Grand Central Art Galleries for much of her career. Her work is in the collections of the Smith College Museum of Art and the National Academy of Design, among others. The Academy collection also contains a portrait of her by

Ivan Olinsky Ivan Gregorewitch Olinsky (1 January 1878 – 11 February 1962) was a Russian Empire-born American painter and art instructor. Biography Olinsky was born in Elizabethgrad, Russian Empire (now Kirovohrad, Ukraine). After immigrating to the Uni ...

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