Kit Lewis Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Wright, David . Tracing Your Kent Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians . 25 . 2016 . 978-1473875241.
  2. Book: Frances Spalding. Antique Collectors' Club. 1990. 20th Century Painters and Sculptors . 1-85149-106-6.
  3. Book: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 46 . 2004 . 0-19-861396-2 . 782–84. Matthew . Henry Colin Gray . Harrison . Brian Howard . Academy . British .
  4. Web site: Amphytrion . Arts Council Collection.
  5. Web site: History of The London Group . The London Group . 2018-01-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150223200007/http://www.thelondongroup.com/history.php . 2015-02-23 . dead .