early life and training dorrit black, an australian painter and printmaker, was born on december 23, 1891, in burnside, australia. she attended the south australian school of arts and crafts in about 1909 and later studied at the julian ashton art school in sydney in 1915. career and influences black's work was influenced by the modernist and cubist art movements. she experimented with colour linocut printing while studying under claud…