The Trustees and Director of Watts Gallery Trust invite you to a private view of
The De Morgan COLLECTION at watts gallery to mark the opening of a display of works by potter and artist William and Evelyn De Morgan in a new partnership between Watts Gallery Trust and The De Morgan Foundation. The De Morgans were close friends and associates of G F and Mary Seton Watts and often visited Limnerslease making this a welcomed display for the Artists’ Village heritage. Watts famously declared of Evelyn that “I look upon her as the first woman artist of the day — if not of all
time”. Many parallels can be drawn between the two sets of artists’ work, where their shared interests in subjects such as mythology, spiritualism, psychical research and social improvement collide.
Monday 3 August 2015 6-8pm To be opened by David Pike, benefactor and collector of 19th-century art and speeches by The De Morgan Foundation chair, Jean McMeakin and Watts Gallery Trust Director, Perdita Hunt DL, OBE.
The Art of Bedlam: Richard Dadd 16 June - 1 November 2015 Watts Gallery
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Front picture credit: Dragon Tile Panel
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