{"id":28876,"date":"2025-09-01T18:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=28876"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:59:09","slug":"the-art-of-doris-hatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/the-art-of-doris-hatt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Doris Hatt (1890-1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8r6FvqXu-0c?si=m9GHYQYvxnZ50DGW\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (4:54): a short illustrated biography about English lesbian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doris_Brabham_Hatt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doris Hatt (1890-1969)<\/a>. Video by South West Heritage Trust (2019).<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Her relatives wanted to conceal her life as a feminist and a lesbian after her death<\/h2>\n<p>Doris Hatt&#8217;s lifelong partner was Margery Mack Smith (1890-1975), a weaver, and primary school teacher. It is thanks to Smith that a number of Hatt&#8217;s sketchbooks and folios of working drawings have been preserved. Soon after Hatt died on 27 August 1969, a significant quantity of her correspondence and personal records were burned by a relative to conceal her life as a feminist and a lesbian. Two chests of material had already been moved to Smith&#8217;s home in Watchet and were preserved.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Boats_in_harbour_picture_by_Doris_Brabham_Hatt_1965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1278\" height=\"1034\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Boats_in_harbour_picture_by_Doris_Brabham_Hatt_1965.jpg 1278w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Boats_in_harbour_picture_by_Doris_Brabham_Hatt_1965-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Boats_in_harbour_picture_by_Doris_Brabham_Hatt_1965-1024x828.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Boats_in_harbour_picture_by_Doris_Brabham_Hatt_1965-768x621.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1278px) 100vw, 1278px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Fishing Boats, Cadaqu\u00e9s oil painting 1965 by Doris Hatt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (4:54): a short illustrated biography about English lesbian artist Doris Hatt (1890-1969). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1704,1462,449,19],"tags":[1725],"class_list":["post-28876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20-century-artists","category-great-britain","category-lesbian-art-herstory","category-painting","tag-doris-hatt-1890-1969"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}