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Morris was as passionate about gardening as he was about painting and he was able to combine these two obsessions when he and his companion, Arthur Lett Haines, moved permanently to a farm in East Anglia in 1930. The flowers in this painting includes poppies, sea holly and irises. Morris began breeding irises in 1934 and he was later awarded the Foster Memorial Plaque by the British Iris Society in 1949. A number of iris hybrids were named after him as well as a rose, a geranium, a daffodil and poppies. Painted in 1938, this picture was made soon after Morris and Lett Haines had established the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Dedham, Essex. They had 60 students enrolled that year but in the following year the building was destroyed by a devastating fire.
Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries
Aberystwyth
Title
The Serpentine Pot
Date
1938
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 68.5 x W 56 cm
Accession number
OP68
Acquisition method
presented by the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, 1946
Work type
Painting
Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries
School of Art, Museum & Gallery, Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 1NG Wales
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