Jessica Dismorr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jessica Dismorr

English painter and illustrator

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1885

Place of Birth: Gravesend, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Aug-1939

Profession: illustrator, painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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 female contributor to Group X and displayed abstract works at the 1937 Artists' International Association exhibition.
Poems and illustrations by Dismorr appeared in several avant-garde publications including Blast, Rhythm and an edition of Axis.



Alternative names	Jessica Stewart Dismorr
Description	British painter and illustrator
Date of birth/death	3 March 1885	29 August 1939
Location of birth/death	Gravesend	London
Authority control	: Q1660404 VIAF: 19563045 ISNI: 0000 0000 6630 9706 ULAN: 500002766 LCCN: nr94028289 Open Library: OL5616697A WorldCat