Kay Francis Art

  Artworks of Kay Francis

Artists and dates have been credited when known. If you have any other pieces of art of Kay Francis that you completed or you know someone who did, email me if you would like them published and credited on this site. If you have further inquiries about the art on this page, please email me as well.

The artist’s name, title & date (if known) are in bold red text.

Sir Gerald Kelly, 1925. This is the one on exhibit at The Seeing Eye, Inc. in Morristown, NJ,
(Courtesy of Scott O’Brien)

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Charles Baskerville, 1925. Kay-biographer Scott O’Brien took a photo of this painting while visiting Kay’s friends Jetti and Lou Ames. Kay had willed it to them.

KF Charles Baskerville c 1925


By Thos Bodley, circa 1931.

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Hollywood’s Malibu Beach, Miguel Covarrubias, 1933. Originally published in Vanity Fair.

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Below: A close-up of where Kay is, beside her
then-boyfriend Maurice Chevalier, Joan Crawford
Leslie Howard, Adolphe Menjou, and Dolores Del Rio.

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George K. Holt (1934). Found this in the Motion Picture Herald. The caption provides further information. 

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Jesus Rodriguez Valero (c. 1935).
(Courtesy of Scott O’Brien)

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Sotero Cosme. (c. 1936)
Katharine Hepburn, Kay & Marlene Dietrich.
More info on Sotero: click here & for bio info click here.

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J. Forrest Qualis (1936).
Appeared in the February 1, 1936 issue of the Motion Picture Herald

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Henry Major (c. 1938)
(Courtesy of Scott O’Brien)

Kay Francis by Henry Major


 

Completed by artist James Montgomery Flagg, 1951 for Vanity Fair.

Clockwise from top-right: Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Kay Francis, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Constance Bennett (Mae West, center).

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