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Morgan RE 1908-1991
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Around Haselmere
8 x 13 cm
£145 unframed
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Deep Peace
6.5 x 8 cm
£65 unframed
sold |

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Old Tree
6.5 x 6.5 cm
£55 unframed
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The two houses
10 x 15.5 cm
£175 unframed |

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Country town
12 x 12 cm
£165
unframed sold
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Park Lane
7 x 13 cm
£155
unframed |

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Midnight madness
17 x 17 cm
£185 unframed sold |
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Adoration of the Magi
19 x 5 £sold |

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Nativity
19 x 5 cm
£sold |
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Cover for Petworth Deanery
Review
19 x 15 cm
£185 unframed |

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Moonlight
6 x 6 cm
£55 unframed
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Fittleworth
19 x
11 cm
£145 unframed
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Helen Austin Book plate
9.5 x 8 cm unframed
£65
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Gwenda
Morgan was a wood engraver, who was born and spent most of her life in
Petworth,
Sussex. She loved the countryside there and frequently depicted it in her work.
She attended Goldsmiths’ College of Art until 1929, after that the Grosvenor
School of Modern Art under lain Macnab. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, Redfern
Gallery and Royal Society of Painters- Printmakers which she was a member, but
became best known for her books and other illustrations, especially Gray’s Elegy
for the Golden Cockerel Press, of 1946, and Grimm’s Other Tales, 1956.
In 1985 the Whittington Press published The Wood Engravings of Gwenda
Morgan.
The Victoria & Albert Museum and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, hold
her work.
Gwenda Morgan was given a review show at The 20th Century
Gallery in 1996.
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