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
  1. Wright, David (2016). Tracing Your Kent Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians. p. 25. ISBN 978-1473875241.
  2. Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
  3. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray; Harrison, Brian Howard; Academy, British (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Volume 46. pp. 782–84. ISBN 0-19-861396-2.
  4. "Amphytrion". Arts Council Collection.
  5. "History of The London Group". The London Group. Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 2018-01-21.

3 paintings by or after Kit Lewis at the Art UK site

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