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Iris Tree's parents were actors Sir [[Herbert Beerbohm Tree]] and [[Helen Maud Tree|Helen Maud, Lady Tree]]. Her sisters were actresses [[Felicity Tree|Felicity]] and [[Viola Tree]]. An aunt was author [[Constance Beerbohm]], and her uncles were explorer and author [[Julius Beerbohm]] and [[Caricature|caricaturist]] and [[Parody|parodist]] [[Max Beerbohm]].<ref name=Treves/> | Iris Tree's parents were actors Sir [[Herbert Beerbohm Tree]] and [[Helen Maud Tree|Helen Maud, Lady Tree]]. Her sisters were actresses [[Felicity Tree|Felicity]] and [[Viola Tree]]. An aunt was author [[Constance Beerbohm]], and her uncles were explorer and author [[Julius Beerbohm]] and [[Caricature|caricaturist]] and [[Parody|parodist]] [[Max Beerbohm]].<ref name=Treves/> | ||
Iris was sought after as an art model while a young woman, being painted by [[Augustus John]], simultaneously by [[Duncan Grant]], [[Vanessa Bell]], and [[Roger Fry]], and sculpted by [[Jacob Epstein]], showing her [[Bob cut|bobbed hair]] (she was said to have cut off the rest and left it on a train) that, along with other behaviour, caused much scandal.<ref name=ITcooke>{{cite web |author=Rachel Cooke |author-link=Rachel Cooke |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/21/the-rainbow-picnic-daphne-fielding-iris-tree |title=''The Rainbow Picnic'' by Daphne Fielding - one bright young thing on another |date=21 September 2015|accessdate=20 January 2016|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref name=ITgrant>{{cite web |author=|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/iris-tree-18971968-41665 |title=''Iris Tree'' by Duncan Grant|date=|accessdate=20 January 2016|work=[[Art UK]]}}</ref> The Epstein sculpture {{as of|2000|lc=y}} | Iris was sought after as an art model while a young woman, being painted by [[Augustus John]], simultaneously by [[Duncan Grant]], [[Vanessa Bell]], and [[Roger Fry]], and sculpted by [[Jacob Epstein]], showing her [[Bob cut|bobbed hair]] (she was said to have cut off the rest and left it on a train) that, along with other behaviour, caused much scandal.<ref name=ITcooke>{{cite web |author=Rachel Cooke |author-link=Rachel Cooke |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/21/the-rainbow-picnic-daphne-fielding-iris-tree |title=''The Rainbow Picnic'' by Daphne Fielding - one bright young thing on another |date=21 September 2015|accessdate=20 January 2016|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref name=ITgrant>{{cite web |author=|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/iris-tree-18971968-41665 |title=''Iris Tree'' by Duncan Grant|date=|accessdate=20 January 2016|work=[[Art UK]]}}</ref> The Epstein sculpture {{as of|2000|lc=y}} was displayed at the [[Tate]] Britain.<ref name=Treves>{{cite web |author=Toby Treves|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/epstein-portrait-of-iris-beerbohm-tree-t07051/text-summary|title=''Portrait of Iris Beerbohm Tree'' (1915) by Sir Jacob Epstein |date=September 2000|accessdate=20 January 2016|work=[[Tate]]}}</ref> She was often photographed by [[Man Ray]], was friends with [[Nancy Cunard]] for a time, and acted alongside [[Lady Diana Cooper|Diana Cooper]] in the mid-1920s.<ref name="Parker">{{cite journal |last1=Parker |first1=Sarah |title=Gaudy Havoc: Iris Tree's performative decadent modernism |journal=Feminist Modernist Studies |date=2022 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=181–209 |doi=10.1080/24692921.2022.2090193 |doi-access=free }}</ref> | ||
Iris studied at the [[Slade School of Art]]. She contributed verse to the 1917 [[The Sitwells|Sitwell]] [[anthology]] ''Wheels''; her published collections were ''Poems'' (1919), ''The Traveller and other Poems'' (1927), and ''The Marsh Picnic'' (1966).<ref name="Parker"/> | Iris studied at the [[Slade School of Art]]. She contributed verse to the 1917 [[The Sitwells|Sitwell]] [[anthology]] ''Wheels''; her published collections were ''Poems'' (1919), ''The Traveller and other Poems'' (1927), and ''The Marsh Picnic'' (1966).<ref name="Parker"/> | ||
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Iris Tree (27 January 1897 – 13 April 1968) was an English poet, actress, and art model,[1] described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit, and an adventurer.
Biography
Iris Tree's parents were actors Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Helen Maud, Lady Tree. Her sisters were actresses Felicity and Viola Tree. An aunt was author Constance Beerbohm, and her uncles were explorer and author Julius Beerbohm and caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm.[2]
Iris was sought after as an art model while a young woman, being painted by Augustus John, simultaneously by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Roger Fry, and sculpted by Jacob Epstein, showing her bobbed hair (she was said to have cut off the rest and left it on a train) that, along with other behaviour, caused much scandal.[3][4] The Epstein sculpture Template:As of was displayed at the Tate Britain.[2] She was often photographed by Man Ray, was friends with Nancy Cunard for a time, and acted alongside Diana Cooper in the mid-1920s.[5]
Iris studied at the Slade School of Art. She contributed verse to the 1917 Sitwell anthology Wheels; her published collections were Poems (1919), The Traveller and other Poems (1927), and The Marsh Picnic (1966).[5]
Iris married twice. Her first marriage was to Curtis Moffat, a New York artist; Ivan Moffat, the screenwriter, was their son.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". She came to America to act in Karl Vollmöller's play The Miracle in 1925, and there met her second husband, the actor and ex-officer of the Austrian cavalry, Count Friedrich von Ledebur. The two roamed around California with their son before moving back to Europe, where they were involved in the Chekhov Theatre Studio. After their divorce, they both appeared in the 1956 film version of Moby Dick. She also appeared as a poet, essentially as herself, in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960).[6]
See also
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References
Further reading
- Daphne Fielding (1974). The Rainbow Picnic: A Portrait of Iris Tree, London: Eyre Methuen
- Sarah Parker (2022) "Gaudy Havoc: Iris Tree’s performative decadent modernism", Feminist Modernist Studies, 5:2, pp. 181–209
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- Tree archive at the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, University of Bristol
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