Born: 1895, United States
Died: 1977
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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The six founders of Women Painters of Washington were Myra Albert Wiggins (1869-1956), Elizabeth Warhanik (1880-1968), Lily Norling Hardwick (1890-1944), Dorothy Dolph Jensen (1895-1977), Anna B. Stone (1869-1950), and Helen Bebb (1878-1947), who acted as an administrator and was not an active painter.
Dorothy Dolph Jensen was among the finest landscape and figure painters ever active in the Northwest. The granddaughter of a U.S. Senator from Oregon, Joseph Dolph, Jensen left her native Forest Grove, Oregon, to attend boarding school in Europe before World War I. At a young age she attended the Academie Julian, where she studied with Jean Paul Laurens. At age 13, she learned etching techniques and would later produce a fine body of work in that medium as well, being the first woman artist in Washington State to have an etching press. In 1914, she left Europe and moved to Seattle, leaving briefly to study in Portland, Oregon, and returning to Seattle a few years later where she remained for the rest of her life.