Artwork Title: The Serpentine Pot

The Serpentine Pot, 1938

Cedric Morris

Morris was as passionate about gardening as he was about painting. He was able to combine these 2 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. This picture was made soon after Morris and Lett Haines set up the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Dedham, Essex. They had 60 students enrolled but in the following year the building was destroyed by a devastating fire. Some of Morris’s paintings were lost in the blaze. The School, and a new garden for Morris, was re-established at Benton End, near Hadleigh, in 1940. (http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-serpentine-pot-176611/view_as/grid/search/keyword:lett-haines/page/1#)
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