Jessica Dismorr - Vorticism

Vorticism

Dismorr was a signatory to the Vorticist manifesto published in the first issue of their literary magazine, BLAST in 1914. She shared the group's depiction of the dynamics of the machine, but little of her work from this period survives. Apart from her, the only other female member of the group was Helen Saunders. William Roberts's painting The Vorticists at the Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel: Spring 1915, from 1961–62, shows the seven males dominating the foreground and the two women behind (Dismorr in the doorway being the furthest away). She exhibited with the Vorticists again in New York in January 1917.