Dorothy Stewart

Dorothy Newkirk Stewart was an American printer, printmaker and artist. Early life and education She was born April 8, 1891, in Philadelphia to Dr. William Shaw and Delia Allman Stewart. Her parents sent her and her sister Margretta to a private school in Philadelphia. Stewart started making art in 1925. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, her focus being on pantomime, stage design, and fresco painting. In 1921, she traveled to Italy, Greece and France, where she became a student of the American School of Fine Arts. Career Stewart became well known for her drawings, paintings, block prints and linoleum prints. Dorothy signed her prints with the initials, D.N.S.