Dora Chapman

1911 1995

Australian artist (1911–1995)

Dora Cecil Chapman, also known as Dora Cant, was a pre and post-war artist and art teacher who painted landscapes, still-life and portraits in oils, watercolours, gouache and acrylics. She created etchings and prints and was also an accomplished silks-screen printer and potter. A resident of South Australia, New South Wales and England, she was concerned with changing society through social realist art.

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