Dorothy Doubble
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Dorothy Doubble, 1973, courtesy D. Brown and R. Martini family collection | | |
PAINTER
BORN: September 29, 1886, Cataroque, Ontario, Canada
DIED: September 23, 1974, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Dorothy Doubble was primarily a landscape artist and art instructor who did illustrations for the women's suffrage movement. During W.W. II, she designed cardboard silhouettes of airplanes, which were used in pilot training, for which the Navy awarded her the rank of Honorary Ensign. She was born in Ontario, Canada and graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, England. After moving to the U.S. with her first husband, Ivan Doubble, and their daughter Chloe, a painter, she obtained a teaching certificate from Columbia University in New York. For twenty-seven years, she supervised the art department at Burlington High School in Burlington, New Jersey. She moved to New Hope in 1923 and married Dr. Roscoe C. Magill, also a painter. The Magills were active in the Phillips Mill Art Association.
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