Iris Tree
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.[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.[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.[citation needed] 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.
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