Iris Tree

Iris Tree (1897 - 1968) was a English poet and actress, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventuress. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was her father. She was sought after, as a young woman, as an artists' model, 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. She was photographed by Man Ray. She ran with Nancy Cunard for a time, in a set at the Eiffel Tower Restaurant of Rudolph Stulik; and acted alongside Diana Cooper in the mid-1920s.

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1897 - 1968 - Poet - Actress - Bohemian - Eccentric - Wit - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - Augustus John - Duncan Grant - Vanessa Bell - Roger Fry - Jacob Epstein - Man Ray - Nancy Cunard - Diana Cooper

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She had studied at the Slade School of Art. She contributed verse to the 1917 Sitwell anthology Wheels; her published collections were Poems (1920) and The Traveller and other Poems (1927).

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Slade School of Art - Sitwell - Anthology

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She married twice, first the actor and ex-officer of the Austrian cavalry, Friedrich von Ledebur-Wicheln. They both appear (after their divorce) in the 1956 film version of Moby-Dick. Her second marriage was to Curtis Moffat, a New Yorker; Ivan Moffat, the screenwriter, was their son.

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Austrian - Moby-Dick - Ivan Moffat - Screenwriter

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