Iris Duncan Francis b. 1913

  • Artist (Painter)
Raised in an artistic family Francis was diverse in her art-making, fearlessly experimenting with techniques and media. Equally diverse in her working life, she combined teaching with playing in orchestras to entertain the wartime troops and translating aerial photographs of WA's northwest into topographical maps for the army.

Citations

  • Erickson, Dorothy (2000), 'Art and Design in Western Australia: Perth Technical College 1900-2000’, Perth, WA.

  • Gooding, Janda (1987), 'Western Australian Art and Artists 1900-1950’, Art Gallery of Western Australia catalogue, Perth, WA.

  • Shervington, Helen (1986), 'Iris Francis’, Aspects of Perth Modernism 1929-1942, University of Western Australia catalogue, [ed. David Bromfield], Nedlands, WA.

See also

  • 'Heritage: section 2, plate 89'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book