seven British women artists included in the 1936 Die Olympiade ouder Dictatwar exhibition in Amsterdam which aimed to counter the Nazi condemnation of Modernism and modern art. Dismorr produced several pointillist self-portraits alongside portraits of her mother and female friends. One of these was of the artist Catherine Dawson Giles, whom Dismorr had known since 1904 when they met in Etaples. The two had also travelled together on painting expeditions in Europe in the 1920s. For several years Dismorr had lived at the Giles family home in London and also had a studio at Giles' cottage at Alfriston in Sussex. Throughout her final years, Dismorr continued painting and exhibiting her work, which became completely abstract during the late 1930s. She exhibited with the Association Abstraction-Creation. She contributed her work, "Related Forms" to Axis magazine in 1937 (no 8: 25). Dismorr died by suicide by hanging in London on 29 August 1939, five days before Britain declared war on Germany. Later exhibitions and research A joint exhibition of works by Dismorr and Giles was held in 2000 at the Fine Art Society in London, with a catalogue written by Quentin Stevenson. Pallant House Gallery held an exhibition of the works of Dismorr and her contemporaries in early 2020. The exhibition was curated by the Gallery in partnership with Dr Alicia Foster. Catherine Heathcock's (unpublished) PhD thesis contains a complete catalogue of Dismorr's works. The letters between Dismorr and Lewis are now held at Cornell University. References Further reading Richard Cork. "Dismorr, Jessica." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. . Retrieved 11 March 2009 Richard Cork (1976). Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age. University of California Press. (2 vols.) & . External links Biddy Peppin on the female Vorticists. 1885 births 1939 suicides 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Artists who committed suicide British women in World War I English women painters Group X Modern painters Suicides by hanging in England People from Gravesend, Kent Vorticists