Doris Meyer Chatham (née Doris Hoag Clark), printmaker, painter, and educator, was born in Toronto, Canada on 10 January 1923. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1927 and eventually settled in Houston, Texas. Doris became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1944, and the following years she earned her BFA degree from the Rice Institute (now known as Rice University). On 19 February 1945, she married the German-born liguist and Goethe Professor Heinrich Meyers. Not long after their nuptials, the Meyers moved to Emmaus, Pennsylvania to open a cooperative farming community with Jerome Irving Rodale. Doris helped edit Rodale’s Organic Farming and Gardening and Prevention magazines and assisted with planting his first organic garden, one of the first in the United States.

After divorcing Meyer in 1955, Doris moved to the Pacific Northwest where she studied printmaking with Glenn Alps at the University of Washington. Under Alps she furthered her mastery of lithography and, in the late 1950s, she travelled to France to study printmaking at S.W. Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris. She studied with Kaiko Moti and experimented with viscosity printing. During this era, Meyer had a brief teaching career at Everett Community College in Everett, Washington.

By the early 1960s Meyer had settled in Marin County, California where she taught art history, drawing and printmaking at the College of Marin. She exhibited throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with the California Society of Etchers, including a major show at the De Young on June 25, 1962 with Denis Beall, John Ihle, and Robert Martin. It was during this time that she met and later married one of her students, the painter Russell Chatham, and they settled in Marshall, California where they had a daughter, Gina. When their marriage failed, Meyer Chatham returned to the Pacific Northwest.

Doris Hoag Clark Meyer Chatham died on 8 June 2015 in Portland, Oregon. Her work is represented in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington., D.C.