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sister mary-jean dorcy biography
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[Biography] [Gallery]
Lived: 1914 - 1988
Type: Papercuttings, Religious
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USA
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Sister Dorcy
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Well-known Catholic Dominican artist Sister Mary Jean Dorcy, born
Frances Emma Dorcy in Anacordes, Wash., in 1914, she was the last
of nine children. |
She resurrected the art of paper-cutting in 1933. Her designs became
known worldwide, and by the late 1950s she was considered the top
religious artist in the U.S. in her field. She published 26 books
during her life time, most illustrated with her own cuttings. |
Ring Around the Rosery
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Modaonna Shrine
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She spent the last years of the 1960s in Mexico, helping to staff
an orphanage for 1,000 children. But her hands became crippled in
the early 1970s. |
Perhaps her enduring legacy was to train artist Dan Paulos, who
has carried on the tradition of paper cutting and has himself become
an internationally known artist. |
Scissors Art
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Untitled
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Sister Dorcy’s final book, “Spring Comes to the Hill Country,”
was collaboration with Paulos. One of her cuttings is housed in
the Smithsonian Institute. |
Sister Mary Jean Dorcy died May 5, 1988 after a long struggle with
acute arthritis and lung ailments. She had been bedridden for the
last 10 years. |
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