New Art Book – The Secret Art of Dorothy Hepworth AKA Patricia Preece

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The Secret Art of Dorothy Hepworth AKA Patricia Preece
Denys J. Wilcox, 2024
Softback
Publisher: The Court Gallery
Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.5
Pages: 152
ISBN: 978-0-9573802-8-8

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Dorothy Hepworth’s life and work has been overshadowed by her flamboyant life-long partner, Patricia Preece, who bizarrely married Stanley Spencer in 1937 but continued to live with Dorothy in a lesbian relationship. For many decades Dorothy has remained an enigmatic, shadowy, figure – her name only mentioned in passing as Patricia Preece’s ‘friend’ and thus her work as a painter has never received the attention it deserves. – This fully illustrated monograph is published to coincide with the major exhibition, Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story, at Charleston Lewes and tells the extraordinary story in detail for the first time.