Doris Kathleen Flinn (15 October 1892 - 19 September 1977) was an English sculptor.
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]
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][3]
Works
The Warrior
Torso
Decorative Mask
Self-Portrait
Sostenuto
Lawyer, Athlete, Aviator, Woman, 1935
Rest
Salome (1920) (Presumed) £5 5s. (£279 in 2023 sterling)
Meditation (1922) (Presumed) £25 (£1,724 in 2023 sterling)
Mother and Child (1922) (Presumed) £1 10s (£76 in 2023 sterling)
Portrait (1923) (Presumed)
Desolation (1923) (Presumed) £35 (£2,521 in 2023 sterling)
Portrait (1924) (Presumed)
The Bargain (1925) (Presumed) £6 6s (£475 in 2023 sterling)
A Warrior (1926) (Presumed) £6 (£440 in 2023 sterling)
Enigma (1926) (Presumed)
R. C. Tuckett, Esq. (1927) (Presumed)
Puritan Girl (1927) (Presumed) £2 2s (£166 in 2023 sterling)