Dorcas Cooke Doolittle
Click for more Dorcas Cooke Doolittle was an early 20th century modernist who explored the contemporary European trends in painting, including Cubism and Expressionism. Born in Philadelphia in 1901, Ms. Doolittle received formal academic training at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, now the Moore College of Art.
Doolittle was married twice, adopting the names Bastian and McClelland at different junctures in her life. She lived all of her life in the Philadelphia area and taught summer school in the artist's colony of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
