Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines
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Gainsborough's House, 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2EU
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- 17th September 10:00am - 6th July 5:00pm
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About this event
From July the main exhibition at Gainsborough’s House will celebrate the colourful and unique art of Cedric Morris (1889–1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (1894–1978), who lived, worked and taught in the local Suffolk countryside.
The exhibition will chart the fullness of their extraordinary and intertwined careers as artistic and romantic partners: from the 1920s and 30s, when they were central to the bohemian and avant-garde scenes of Newlyn, London and Paris, to the 1940s and beyond, when the pair were based in Suffolk, cultivating a haven for like-minded creatives and teaching young artists including Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling.
Spread over two floors of the new galleries, the exhibition will bring together a large selection of paintings, drawings and sculptures from public and private collections.
Cedric’s love and intense observation of nature will be demonstrated by his vital paintings of flowers, birds, people and places. As pupil Lucien Freud noted, his contemporaries often regarded Cedric’s portraits as ‘revealing in a way that was almost improper’. Lett’s mysterious experiments with surrealism and abstract and organic forms are less well-known and ripe for reappraisal.
Image: Courtesy of Philip Mould & Company
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About the Venue
Gainsborough’s House is the national centre for Thomas Gainsborough and it holds the most comprehensive collection of his work in a single setting. A varied programme of temporary exhibitions is also on show throughout the year. Visitor’s gift shop, café and garden are also available as part of the museum experience.
Gainsborough’s House is the childhood home of Thomas Gainsborough RA (1727–1788). Today, the permanent collection of Gainsborough's House encompasses the whole career of Thomas Gainsborough, from early portraits and landscapes painted in Suffolk during the 1750s, to later works from his Bath and London periods of the 1760s, 70s and 80s. The collection of works on paper includes drawings by Gainsborough and his contemporaries, as well as prints by or after Gainsborough and other eighteenth-century artists.
In 2019, Gainsborough’s House commenced a £10m building project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. On 21 November 2022, the museum re-opened to the public after a transformational refurbishment; introducing 3 new exhibition spaces to accompany the original Grade I listed building. The museum is now the largest gallery in Suffolk.
The visitor entrance to Gainsborough’s House is on Weavers Lane and leads into the main gallery. Visitors can view the family house, the new gallery spaces, examples of Gainsborough’s work, alongside specialist exhibitions and the famed, crinkle-crinkle walled garden and Mulberry Tree dating to the early 1600s. The space also has The Watering Place café serving coffees, pastries and light lunches.
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