ARTIST

Jessica Dismorr

1885–1939 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

One of only two women in the radical Vorticist movement who defied convention both in art and life.

ABOUT

Jessica Stewart Dismorr (3 March 1885 – 29 August 1939) was an English painter and illustrator. Dismorr participated in almost all of the avant-garde groups active in London between 1912 and 1937 and was one of the few English painters of the 1930s to work in a completely abstract manner. She was one of only two women members of the Vorticist movement and also exhibited with the Allied Artists Association, the Seven and Five Society and the London Group. She was the only fem…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Sunlight, Martigues 1911 Landscape with Trees 1911 · Government Art Collection Landscape with Cottages 1911 · Government Art Collection Abstract Composition 1915 · Tate Jessica Dismorr 1929 · National Portrait Gallery Related Forms 1937 · Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
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