Abstract Composition

Jessica Dismorr (1885–1939) was an influential artist and poet at the vanguard of British avant-garde. She was an active contributor to the Rhythm group in the 1910s, one of only two women members of the vorticism movement, a pioneer in postwar modernist figuration, and one of few English painters to work in abstraction during the 1930s. Despite her contribution to modernist literature and progressive politics through her art, she has largely disappeared from art history due to the fact that she was a woman. 

Vorticism, a London-based modernist movement formed in 1914, is seen as particularly masculinist for excluding women from both its textual and visual canons. Despite having contributed to the movement from its inception to its demise, Dismarr was often disregarded by critics. Superimposed Forms (1938) is among her most well-known abstract works belonging to this movement.