title: Dorothy Manning
text: # Dorothy Manning
  
  Dorothy Jordan Waters (née Manning, 21 August 1919 – 31 May 2012) was a New Zealand artist.
  
  Works by Manning include 'Road to sea' and are in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
  
  ## Career
  
  Manning exhibited with New Zealand art societies including: Auckland Society of Arts; Canterbury Society of Arts; New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. She was also a member of the Canterbury-based art association 'The Group', and exhibited with them in: 1945; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1961; 1962.
  
  She was part of the council for the Canterbury Society of Arts.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  She was the wife of Leo Campbell Waters.
  
  