Notes

In an early photograph taken in Dorothy Kay’s studio, three works are shown leaning up against the fireplace. Simply described by Marjorie Reynolds in her biography on Dorothy Kay, as “a number of very good paintings” the works illustrated are Taxis, Overhauling the tug “Talana” and Market Carts.¹

Market Carts shows the carts being loaded with fresh produce at the raised platform outside the Feather Market Hall in Port Elizabeth. It was exhibited at the Eastern Province Society of Arts and Crafts, Port Elizabeth, in 1920, and in London at the Palace of Arts, Wembley where it was presumed sold (for an amount of £26.5.0d ).² The painting subsequently made its way back to South Africa and was exhibited at the Constantia Gallery in Johannesburg where it was purchased by the current owner’s father.

¹ Reynolds, Marjorie. Everything you do is a Portrait of Yourself: Dorothy Kay. a biography, pp, Rosebank, 1989, page 35
² Ibid, page 455

Exhibited

The Constantia Gallery, Johannesburg

Literature

Reynolds, Marjorie. Everything You Do is a Portrait of Yourself: Dorothy Kay. a biography, Rosebank, 1989, illustrated on page 36 with exhibition details on page 455