Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines
Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines is now open at Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk and Richard Green is delighted to be lending Morris’s Still life with Irises, 1962, to the exhibition. Gainsborough’s House holds the largest collection of artworks by Cedric Morris, following the donation of a significant collection by Maggi Hambling and Robert Davey in 2017. Cedric and Lett founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing not far from Gainsborough’s House originally in Dedham before moving to Benton End in Hadleigh in 1939. Today Morris is best known for his flower paintings, particularly of irises. He was also an enthusiastic plantsman and noted Iris breeder.
Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines
Gainsborough’s House
Until 3rd November 2024
https://gainsborough.org/event/revealing-nature-the-art-of-cedric-morris-and-lett-haines/
Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Bt.
Sketty, Swansea 1889 - 1982 Ipswich
Still life with Irises
Signed and dated lower left: CEDRIC MORRIS / - 1962
Oil on canvas
30 x 21 1/2 in / 76.2 x 54.6 cm