Doris Kathleen Flinn

Doris Kathleen Flinn (15 October 1892 - 1977) was an English sculptor.

Doris Kathleen Flinn
Flinn c. 1935 with self portrait bust
Born15 October 1892
Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lancashire
Died1977 (aged 84–85)
East Dundry, Bristol
NationalityBritish
Alma materManchester School of Art
Known forSculpture

Biography

Doris Kathleen Flinn was born at 12 Oak Avenue, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lancashire, on 15 October 1892, the daughter of Arthur Flinn (b. ca. 1858), an agent for a silk merchants, and Martha Hannah Barton.[1][2]

In 1911, Flinn moved to Manchester and from 1914 to 1920 she studied at Manchester School of Art, living at 1 King's Road Alexandra Park, Manchester, and was a member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.[1]

She met Joan Tuckett (1895-1957) by 1917. Tuckett was one of the first female solicitors in Bristol. By 1920 Flinn moved to Bristol. Both Flinn and Tuckett were active Communists and friends with Doris Brabham Hatt and Margery Mack Smith. Flinn and Tuckett were also international hockey players and trained as pilots. The plaster model for a portrait head of Tuckett made by Flinn in 1925 is now at the Bristol Museum. In 1935 Flinn sculpted "Lawyer, Athlete, Aviator, Woman", a piece about Tuckett.

By 1923, Flinn was living at 5 Beaufort Buildings, Clifton, Bristol, Tuckett's family home, and ran a sculpture studio in Boyce's Avenue, Clifton, Bristol.[1] In the early 1920s Flinn worked on some of the carvings for the Wills Memorial Building. In 1930 the couple purchased The Rookery, a large stone-built XVIII century house at East Dundry, Bristol, where they lived there together until Tuckett's death in 1957. Flinn continued to live at The Rookery until her death in 1977.[1]

1930s bust of East Dundry neighbour Lawrence Ogilvie.

Works
  • The Warrior
  • Torso
  • Decorative Mask
  • Self-Portrait
  • Sostenuto
  • Lawyer, Athlete, Aviator, Woman, 1935
  • Rest
  • Salome (1920) (Presumed) £5 5s. (£223 in 2019 sterling)
  • Meditation (1922) (Presumed) £25 (£1,375 in 2019 sterling)
  • Mother and Child (1922) (Presumed) £1 10s (£61 in 2019 sterling)
  • Portrait (1923) (Presumed)
  • Desolation (1923) (Presumed) £35 (£2,011 in 2019 sterling)
  • Portrait (1924) (Presumed)
  • The Bargain (1925) (Presumed) £6 6s (£379 in 2019 sterling)
  • A Warrior (1926) (Presumed) £6 (£351 in 2019 sterling)
  • Enigma (1926) (Presumed)
  • R. C. Tuckett, Esq. (1927) (Presumed)
  • Puritan Girl (1927) (Presumed) £2 2s (£132 in 2019 sterling)
  • A Warrior (1928) (Presumed)
  • Bacchus (1928) (Presumed)
  • The Caretaker's Daughter (1928) (Presumed)
  • Mother and child (1928)
  • Meditation (1928)
  • Brigid (1936)
  • Lawrence Ogilvie (1930s) neighbour of Doris Flinn
  • Mermaid (1936)[1]

Exhibitions

References
  1. "'Miss Doris Kathleen Flinn', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. "Baptisms at St Clement in the District of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester". The Church of St Clement, Chorlton-cum-Hardy. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
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