The Art of Cedric Morris & Lett-Haines
This publication was produced to accompany Gainsborough's House's 2024 exhibition Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines, the first to chart the phenomenal artistic careers of the two artists, who were partners in love and art for sixty years.
With over eighty loans from Tate, the National Portrait Gallery and a wealth of private collections, the range of their art becomes apparent. Morris is celebrated not only for his flower paintings and still lives but also for portraits and landscapes, and Lett-Haines is revealed as an important figure in developing Surrealist art in Britain. They famously met on Armistice Night in 1918 and spent the 1920s absorbing European Modernism in France, Italy and Germany, meeting a huge range of artists and writers. Their paintings, drawings and sculptures are highly distinctive and have a unique place in the history of twentieth-century art.
The publication features essays by Richard Morphet, Sean Burns, Emma Boyd and exhibition curator, Dr Patricia Hardy, with an interview between Calvin Winner and Maggi Hambling.
