Dorothea

American  

[dawr-uh-thee-uh, dor-] / ˌdɔr əˈθi ə, ˌdɒr- /

noun

1. a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift of God.”

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Example Sentences

Masson, like many of the most persuasive artists in “Dreamworld”—Picasso, Arp, André Kertész, Calder, Dorothea Tanning—engaged for a time with innovative Surrealist ideas but, evolving, didn’t forever worship at the altar of the absurd.

From The Wall Street Journal

When I began photography at the age of 16, I decided to use it to try to change the world, and I particularly admired photographers that had used photography to affect public policy, like the Farm Security Administration photographers in the 1930s, which included people like Dorothea Lange.

From Los Angeles Times

Looking at that image today, looking in the eyes and the face of this man, I really had the impression that — even though it’s my own photograph — that I was looking at one of Dorothea Lange’s photographs.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Antonetta, a writer for Psychology Today, weaves in the biographies of two German schizophrenia patients: Dorothea Buck, who was sterilized by the Nazi regime but survived and went on to advocate for mental-health reform in West Germany; and Paul Schreber, a judge who sued for his own release from Sonnenstein during its pre-Nazi incarnation and wrote a memoir of his illness.

From The Wall Street Journal

Along with the Kahlo, Sotheby’s sale offered up 23 works from their estate, including Dorothea Tanning’s 1951 “Interior with Sudden Joy” that sold for a record-high $3.4 million, over its $3 million high estimate.

From The Wall Street Journal