Anne Dunn (born 4 September 1929) is an

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artist associated with the second generation of the School of London.

Background and education

Dunn was born at Norwich House on Norfolk Street, London, the daughter of Canadian steel magnate Sir James Dunn, 1st Baronet (1874–1956) and his second wife, Irene Clarice Richards. Her mother was a former musical-comedy actress who had previously been married to

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. Dunn studied in London at

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(1949–50) and at the Anglo-French Centre (1952) before going to the

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in 1952.

Career

From 1964 to 1968, she edited the journal ''Art and Literature'' with

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and

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. In 1990, Dunn had a solo show at the Christopher Hull Gallery in London. Her most recent solo show was in 2005 at the

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in New York.

Personal life

Dunn's first husband was the artist Michael Wishart (1928–1996); they were married for 10 years before divorcing, and had one son. Michael Wishart's autobiography ''High Diver'' (1977) is dedicated to her and gives a picture of the artist as a young woman. Immediately after she and Wishart divorced in 1960, Dunn married Anglo-Spanish artist

(1910–1990), as his second wife. They had a son together and Dunn gained a stepson through the marriage.

References

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