Dorothy Mary L. Burroughes (1883 – 18 July 1963) was a British artist known as a painter, illustrator and linocut artist. She designed posters and wrote and illustrated a series of children's books.
Biography Burroughes was born and lived most of her life in London, although in her later years she lived near Henley-on-Thames. She studied at the Slade School of Art and at Heatherley's in London before furthering her studies in Germany. Burroughes produced illustrations for a number of magazines including Bystander, Sketch and the Illustrated London News. She produced posters for the London Underground, including the poster For the Zoo in the style of a Japanese colour woodcut. Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s she wrote and illustrated a series of children's books, often on animal themes. Animals were also a recurring theme in the prints she produced as were cloud formations. Her prints often featured towering banks of cumulus clouds above an English landscape. Burroughes also illustrated books by other writers, notably The Story of the Red Deer which was published by Gregynog Press in 1936 and for which she produced eleven colour prints.
Throughout the 1920s Burroughes lived with her partner Vere Hutchinson, an author who had five books published but died in 1931 after a protracted illness. Burroughes was elected a member of the Society of Women Artists in 1923 and became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1925. She exhibited with the Fine Art Society in London and both the London Transport Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum hold examples of her work.
Books illustrated Books illustrated by Burroughes include, Queer Beasts at the Zoo by G Davidson, Allen & Unwin, 1927 Queer Birds at the Zoo by G Davidson, Allen & Unwin, 1927 Gun Fodder by J. F. Snook, Allen & Unwin, 1930 The Animal Lovers' Calendar, by Jenkins, 1930 Fifty-One New Nursery Rhymes by Rose Fyleman, Methuen, 1931 Tinkle the Cat by NC James, Dent, 1932 Gardener's Frenzy by M Pallister, Methuen, 1933 The Story of the Red-Deer by JW Fortescue, Gregynog Press, 1936
Books written and illustrated Books written and illustrated by Burroughes include, The Amazing Adventures of Little Brown Bear, Methuen, 1930 Jack Rabbit, Detective, Methuen, 1931 Journeyings of Selina Squirrel and her Friends, Methuen, 1931 The Odd Little Girl, Methuen, 1932 Captain Seal's Treasure Hunt, Bodley Head, 1933 More Adventures of the Odd Little Girl, Bodley Head, 1933 Harris the Hare and His Own True Love, Bodley Head, 1933 The Strange Adventures of Mary Jane Stubbs, Bodley Head, 1933 The House the Moles Built, Hutchinson, 1939 The Little Black Rabbit, Hutchinson, 1940 Teddy, the Little Refuge Mouse, Hutchinson, 1942 The Pigs who Sailed Away, Hutchinson, 1944 The Magic Herb, Hutchinson, 1945 The Conceited Frog, Hutchinson, 1949 The Little White Elephant, Hutchinson, 1953
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