Dorothy Bradford

For the artist with a similar name see Dorothy Elizabeth Bradford. Dorothy Bradford, née Bassano, (2 April 1918 – 17 June 2008) was a British painter and printmaker.

Biography Bradford was born in Cockermouth where her father was an art teacher. While still at school she took evening classes at the Liverpool School of Art. She continued to take evening classes when she left school and took a job in a department store to support her relatives when her father died. Working for CEMA gave Bradford the opportunity to attend many music and ballet performances and rehearsals, which were to become the main subject of her art.

After the war Bradford left CEMA and moved to Liverpool where she and her husband raised a family. Bradford's work was shown at the Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool, at the Woodstock Gallery, at the American Embassy in London and at the Royal Festival Hall, also in London. An exhibition of her work, Rhythms of Life, was held at the School of Music in Leeds during 2003.