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Pre-Raphaelite art and Arts & Crafts ceramics by the De Morgans We're pausing posting on here for now Find us on Bluesky @demorganfoundation.bsky.social
Joined July 2009
Our Summer Journal for De Morgan Friends members is out now.
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Looking forward to Sorcières opening next month at Pont Aven Museum @museepontaven
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🐰 Hopping into Easter with William De Morgan’s energetic rabbit/hare designs. 🐇. In these examples, mostly from our collection, they are springing away from a curious blue bear, eye to eye with a Sphinx, being pounced upon by an eagle and leading a three rabbit race.
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🖼️ Looking for a truly unique gift for the art lover in your life? 🎨. ❤️Adopt a De Morgan artwork! Choose your or your loved one’s favourite Evelyn artwork or William ceramic in our collection to sponsor and support the work we do.
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Come on in! It’s the first day of our exhibition with the @GuildhallArt, London, celebrating ‘Evelyn De Morgan, The Modern Painter of Victorian London’. Learn about Evelyn’s groundbreaking career as a female artist in the patriarchal Victorian art world in London.
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‘Evelyn De Morgan, The Modern Painter in Victorian London’ opens tomorrow, Friday, at the @GuildhallArt. Did you know Evelyn first exhibited her work at the Guildhall in 1897. Open till 4 January 2026, will you be visiting the exhibition?
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The De Morgan Museum at Cannon Hall @BarnsleyMuseums reopens this Saturday (5th April 2025). Displaying some of the treasures in our collection, including this unique sculpture of Medusa by Evelyn De Morgan. Are you planning on visiting?
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@KelmscottManor @WMGallery 3. 🖼️ ‘Honeysuckle wallpaper’, designed by May Morris, c.1883, WMGallery. 4. 🖼️ Detail from Embroidery design by May Morris, worked by May Morris and Theodosia Middlemore for Melsetter House, Orkney, c.1900, National Museums of Scotland.
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1. 🖼️ ‘Portrait May Morris’, Edward Burne-Jones, @KelmscottManor . 2. 🖼️ ‘May Morris embroidering at home in Hammersmith’, photograph, c.1920, @WMGallery.
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The obituaries May wrote about Evelyn and William speak to the regard she had for them. At the request of Evelyn she wrote a memoir of William in The Burlington Magazine. And after Evelyn’s death described her as possessing ‘masculine bonhomie […] with a man’s intelligence’.
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Seeking an alternative to the Art Workers Guild, which did not accept female members until 1964, May founded the Women’s Guild of Art in 1907. Evelyn joined the Women’s Guild early, allowing her in May’s words ‘… to meet women who are not playing at art’.
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The Morris family and De Morgan’s were close friends, collaborators and colleagues, with May following in her parents footsteps and becoming close with Evelyn and William.
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‘… to meet women who are not playing at art’. Happy Birthday to polymath, May Morris, designer of wallpaper, jewellery, textiles, stained glass and other arts and crafts. She was also an embroiderer, author, editor, lecturer, artist, and a close friend of Evelyn and William.
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Works currently on display by the De Morgan’s include Evelyn’s oil paintings ‘Venus and Cupid’, ‘Lux in Tenebris’, and a portrait of William De Morgan, among others, and an important collection of William De Morgan ceramics.
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The Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village includes the historic galleries, a chapel and the artists’ home, Limnerslease. William and Evelyn De Morgan were frequent visitors to the Watts Gallery, when it was the studio-home of their friends, the Watts.
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… Sharing and celebrating the work of spouses, Mary and G. F. Watts, the Watts gallery is an arts and crafts haven. George was a painter, famous for his portraits and symbolist artworks, as well as a sculptor, and Mary was an artist, designer and social reformer.
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Couples and Art Collectives: for this #MuseumMonday we are showcasing our partnership with the @WattsGallery, Surrey, where an exhibition of the foundation’s art and ceramics can be seen. Have you visited yet? …
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#SunshineSaturday with this Ruby and Gold Lustreware dish. Decorated with a Dahlia plant in a pot flanked with two bees. Dahlias were a popular flower in the Victoria era conveying devotion, beauty, and dignity. With bees representing hard work, diligence, and productivity.
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As a De Morgan Friend, you’ll enjoy exclusive benefits, including:..✨ Videos you can’t watch anywhere else.✨ Special content and behind-the-scenes insights.✨ Access to unique events and offers.
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What better to way to show your support for #WomensHistoryMonth than by becoming a Friend of the De Morgan Foundation, #FriendsFriday. Join our Friends Scheme today for just £30 a year and support our charity. Join now here- ..
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