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Collagist and teacher Dorothy Bushnell Cole (1893-1990) was active in Chicago, Illinois and New York City, New York. She gave lectures and talks around New York and New England on creating collage.
Dorothy Bushnell grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Her sister, Elaine Hyman was also an accomplished artist who took the name Kyra Markham. Cole attended Vassar College and returned to Chicago where she married Laurence Cole, a Chicago lawyer, and together they had four children. Upon the death of Cole, she married Nathan Blumberg in the late 1930s.
In 1951, Cole traveled to Mexico on a convalescence trip where she learned to free-hand cut paper and photographs to create collage. Recognizing how it helped her own mental health, she taught a workshop at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago to help others. She moved to New York City and continued her workshops for women's groups, museums, and schools.
Cole died in New York City in 1990.
