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The Serpentine Pot

© trustees of the Cedric Lockwood Morris Estate/Foundation / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries

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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

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Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries

School of Art, Museum & Gallery, Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 1NG Wales

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