Gwenda Morgan lived in the town of Petworth in West Sussex.
10 Facts About Gwenda Morgan
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Gwenda Morgan was the son of a Welsh-born military farrier.
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Gwenda Morgan was commissioned to illustrate a number of books published by private presses.
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Gwenda Morgan illustrated four books for the Golden Cockerel Press, including Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Grimms' Other Tales.
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Gwenda Morgan's work was inspired by that of Macnab, Percy Douglas Bliss and the Sussex-bred Eric Ravilious.
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Gwenda Morgan's prints are held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum in London, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, among others.
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In 2015 an exhibition, "A Study in Contrast: Sybil Andrews and Gwenda Morgan", was held at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, comparing and contrasting the fellow Grosvenor School artists.
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Some of her prints are on permanent display in the Leconfield Hall, Petworth, to which Gwenda Morgan gave a substantial bequest on her death.
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Wood engravings from the original Gwenda Morgan blocks are being sold in aid of the Leconfield Hall.
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Gwenda Morgan exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Redfern Gallery.