Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939)

Aliases: J. S. Dismore; Jessie Stewart Dismorr

Professions: Painter; Illustrator

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  Jessica Dismorr , 1885-1939 Martigues Market 2 oil on wood panel

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  Jessica Dismorr , 1885-1939 Related Forms 1937 gouache on card

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  Jessica Dismorr , 1885-1939 In the garden oil on panel

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  JESSICA DISMORR

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Jessica Dismorr Biography

(b Gravesend, Kent, 1885; d London, 29 Aug 1939). English painter and illustrator. She studied at the Slade School, London, in 1902–3, then trained under Max Bohm at Etaples and in 1910–13 at La Palette, Paris, under Jean Metzinger, John Duncan Fergusson and Dunoyer de Segonzac. As a result she developed a Fauvist style using rich impastos. She contributed several brusquely simplified illustrations to Rhythm magazine during 1911 and exhibited Fauvist canvases at the Allied Artists’ Association in 1912 and 1913. She exhibited with S. J. Peploe and Fergusson at the Stafford Gallery in 1912, but an encounter with Wyndham Lewis the following year led to a dramatic change in her work. By spring 1914 she had become an enthusiastic member of the Rebel Art Centre, and her name appeared on the list of signatures at the end of the Vorticist manifesto in the first issue of Blast magazine (1914).

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