Benton End Remembered : Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines, and the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing by Gwynneth Reynolds and Diana Grace

by Gainsborough's House

£20.00

When Cedric Morris and Arther Lett-Haines opened the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, Essex in 1937 they were both established artists with international reputations. They had lived and worked in London, Cornwall and Paris, had travelled extensively and had made large numbers of friends among other artists. There had been a series of successful exhibitions in London and New York in the 1920s and Morris, in particular, had received critical acclaim and had sold a large number of paintings.

The extracts which form the text of this book are based largely on conversations with contributers which took place during the years 1998 and 1999. Articles, extracts from an autobiography and a diary are also included. They comprise the affectionate memories of a few of those who knew and loved Benton End and its two gifted and hospitable hosts.

22 x 25 cm

Paperback
160 pages, colour illustrations

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ISBN: 9781910787977

Cedric Morris (1889 – 1982) was the only person of his generation to achieve national stature both as a painter and a plantsman. As well as painting portraits, still-life’s and landscapes representing his expansive travels, Morris is best known for his flower paintings, which reveal his keen interest as a botanist – he cultivated over 90 new irises.

Gainsborough’s House holds the largest collection of artwork by Cedric Morris, generously gifted to the museum by the Trustees of the artist’s estate. A selection of his art are on permanent display within a dedicated room at Gainsborough’s House.

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Gainsborough's House

Gainsborough's House is in the heart of Suffolk, in Sudbury, and the birthplace and childhood home of Thomas Gainsborough – one of the great figures of British and World Art history, renowned not only in his advancement of portraiture to a higher level but also in being one of the founders of the British School of landscape painting.
A bricked Georgian Grade-I listed house with an intimate walled garden featuring a 400 year old Mulberry Tree, in 2019, the Gainsborough’s House Society received an investment of £10m to upgrade and ‘revive the artist’s birthplace’. On 21 November 2022, the museum re-opened to the public after a transformational refurbishment. The museum is the international centre for Thomas Gainsborough and is now the largest gallery in Suffolk.

Visitors can view the family house, the new gallery spaces, examples of Gainsborough’s work, alongside specialist exhibitions and the famed garden and Mulberry Tree dating to the early 1600s. The space also has a cafe and visitor’s shop.

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