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Jessica Dismorr
Paintings
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Gillian
Jason Modern & Contemporary Art Artist Chronology of Jessica Dismorr http://www.gillianjason.com/artists/d/jessica-dismorr/10761/bio |
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 Les Baux |
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The fauvist
influence is apparent in the bold outlines and use
of color to delineate form.
Left: Landscape with Figures, Museums Sheffield Right: Landscape with Trees, c.1911-1912 Oil on board, height: 32.50 cm, width: 40.00 cm UK, London, Government Art Collection |
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Related
Forms, 1937, Tempera
on board, The
Tate (Appeared in Axis
8, Winter 1937) Right: Superimposed Forms, 1938, Tempera on gesso board, Birmingham Museums Trust |
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 Above: Les Baux, the Priest Enters His Church (1911) Right: Les Baux from the Valley via Modernist Journals Project |
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Portraits
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 There are many
illustrations of portraits by Jessica Dismorr on the
net. We chose these few as
a sample of how confident she was in her skills and ability to capture a sense of her subject. |
 Left: Dylan
Thomas ; Right: George Barker
from: https://richardawarren.wordpress.com/category/jessica-dismorr/ |
 Wyndham Lewis with cat (1920) Modernist Journals Project-Dismorr |
 The
Conversation - Dismorr
The Tyro ( Vol. 1, No. 2 ) London: Egoist Press, 1922 Modernist Journals Project, (image 71) |
| Jessica Dismorr lived and traveled with
her close friend, the artist Catherine Giles. Below, left, is a sample of a Giles' watercolour. Right is a portrait of Giles by Dismorr. Further down you'll see a sketch of Dismorr by Giles made during one of their travels. _____________________________________________ |
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 Above: Bombed
Houses (Temple area); Bombsight, 1944
by Catherine Giles (1878-1955) pencil and watercolour, 18 x 16 in. (45.8 x 40.7 cm.) (2) |
 Above: Portrait of Catherine Giles by Jessica Dismorr |
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Jessica Dismorr on the Balcony Cassis, 1927 pencil and watercolour on paper, by Catherine Giles (1878-1955) Private Collection _____________________  Photo © The Fine Art Society, London, UK |
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