Kit Lewis
Kathleen Margaret "Kit" Lewis (27 September 1911 – 1998) was a British painter.
The daughter of Henry Bryan Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett-Osborne and Margaret Sydney Bourns, she was born Kathleen Margaret Godfrey-Faussett-Osborne[1] in Lichfield, Staffordshire. She studied at the Chelsea College of Art under Graham Sutherland.[2] In 1940, she married Edward Morland Lewis, an artist who died in North Africa in 1943 while employed as a war artist. In 1954, she married Sir James Maude Richards, an architectural writer; the couple had one son.[3] Lewis joined The London Group in 1948. In 1953, she had her first solo show at the Leicester Galleries and continued to show there on a frequent basis.[4][5]
References
- ISBN 978-1473875241.
- ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
- ISBN 0-19-861396-2.
- ^ "Amphytrion". Arts Council Collection.
- ^ "History of The London Group". The London Group. Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
External links
3 artworks by or after Kit Lewis at the Art UK site
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