Dod Procter

Dod Procter RA
Born	Doris Margaret Shaw 21 April 1890 Hampstead, London, England
Died	31 July 1972 Redruth, Cornwall, England
Nationality	English
Education	Forbes School, Atelier Colarossi
Known for	Painting
Spouse(s)	Ernest Procter
Elected	President of St Ives Society of Artists (STISA)

Dod Procter RA (born Doris Margaret Shaw, 1890–1972) was an English artist, and wife of artist Ernest Procter. Her painting, Morning, was bought for public consumption by the Daily Mail in 1927.

Procter and her husband attended art schools in England and in Paris together, where they were both influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism movements. They also worked together at times, sometimes sharing commissions and other times showing their work together in exhibitions. Procter was a lifelong artist, active after the untimely death of her husband in 1935. She was a member of several artists organisations, such as the Newlyn School and became President of St Ives Society of Artists (STISA) in 1966. Her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy on many occasions.

Doris "Dod" Shaw was born in Hampstead, London in 1890. At the age of 15 she moved to Newlyn with her mother and brother so that she could study at the Forbes School. The Shaws stayed with two other Forbes students, Dod's cousin Cicely Jesse and another woman artist, Tennyson Jesse, at Myrtle Cottage. At Forbes Miss Shaw met her future husband Ernest Procter; They were "amongst the Forbes' star pupils."

In 1910 and 1911 Dod Shaw and Ernest Procter studied in Paris at Atelier Colarossi. Dod and Ernest were both influenced by Impressionism and Post-impressionism and the artists that they met in France, such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cézanne. In 1912 the couple married at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris. One year later their son Bill was born.

Paul Cézanne, Paul Alexis reading to Émile Zola
1869–1870
São Paulo Museum of Art

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