Dorothy Dolph Jensen

Dorothy Dolph Jensen

Jensen, Dorothy Dolph

Forest Grove 1895

Oregon

Seattle 1977

painter

printmaker

Northwest artist

Oregon artist

Painter and printmaker, Dorothy Dolph Jensen studied at the Portland Art School, having received prior training in Europe. In 1919 she married Lloyd Jensen, Seattle's most noted framemaker, and remained in Seattle for the rest of her life. Jensen was the only woman in the city during the 1920s and 1930s who did intaglio printmaking with her own press. She was a founder, in 1930, of the Women Painters of Washington and a charter member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She exhibited in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco.

Artist biography reproduced with permission of Katharine Harmon, author of The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History.

Female