Dorothy Annan

Dorothy Annan (20 January 1900 – 28 June 1983) was an English painter, potter and muralist who was born in Brazil to British parents and was educated in France and Germany. Her works were frequently shown at the Leicester Galleries in London and she had her first solo show there in 1945.

Biography Born in 1900, Annan exhibited with the Artists' International Association, and once featured in an art show in an air-raid shelter beside work by Augustus John during World War II. In 1949 she taught at the Bath College of Art. For a time they lived in a single-decker bus. She died in 1983 at the Sue Ryder Home in Snettisham, Norfolk. The listing was supported by the Twentieth Century Society and the Tiles & Architectural Ceramics Society, artist Frank Auerbach and Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain. The building is owned by Goldman Sachs, who wished to redevelop the site and opposed the listing of the murals.

In January 2013, the City of London Corporation agreed to take ownership of the murals, and in September 2013 these were moved to a permanent location in a publicly accessible part of the Barbican Estate. They are displayed in their original sequence within an enclosed section of the Barbican Highwalk between Speed House and the Barbican Centre.

The family of Annan and Tennant donated their archive to the Archive of Sculptors' Papers at the Henry Moore Foundation.