Kate Lechmere | |
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 Kate Lechmere in 1925 | |
| Born | Kate Elizabeth Lechmere 13 October 1887 Fownhope, Herefordshire, England |
| Died | February 1976 (aged 88) |
| Occupation(s) | Painter and milliner |
Kate Elizabeth Lechmere (13 October 1887 – February 1976)[1] was a British painter who with Wyndham Lewis was the co-founder of the Rebel Art Centre in 1914.[2] As far as is known, none of Lechmere's paintings have survived.[3] She served as a nurse in England during the First World War and had a three-year relationship with the poet and critic T.E. Hulme before he was killed. After the war she became a successful milliner.
- ^ "Rebel Art Centre", Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ "LECHMERE, Kate", Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ "Women that a movement forgot" Brigid Peppin, Tate, 1 May 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2014.