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The William Morris Gallery holds the most comprehensive collection of objects relating to all aspects of Morris's life and work, including his work as a designer, a writer and a social activist. [WMG 1] The permanent exhibit is divided into 9 rooms: 1. Meet the Man, Morris' early life and background; 2.
William Morris, 1834-1896: A Life of Art. Taschen. ISBN 9783836561631. Beecroft, Helen (2019). William Morris. Flame Tree Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78755-307-1. Fairclough, Oliver and Emmeline Leary, Textiles by William Morris and Morris & Co. 1861–1940, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1981, ISBN 0-89860-065-0
The William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, England, is a public museum devoted to Morris's life, work and influence. [ 299 ] [ 300 ] [ 301 ] The William Morris Society is based at Morris's final London home, Kelmscott House , Hammersmith , and is an international members society, museum and venue for lectures and other Morris-related events ...
Morris's friend Walter Crane wrote, "...Mr. William Morris has shown what beauty and character in pattern, and good and delicate choice of tint can do for us, giving in short a new impulse to design, a great amount of ingenuity and enterprise has been spent on wallpapers in England, and in the better minds a very distinct advance has been made ...
The six original tapestries illustrate the story of the Grail quest as told in Sir Thomas Malory's 1485 book Le Morte d'Arthur.Like other Morris & Co. tapestries, the Holy Grail sequence was a group effort, with overall composition and figures designed by Edward Burne-Jones, heraldry by William Morris, and foreground florals and backgrounds by John Henry Dearle.
William Morris' design for Trellis wallpaper, 1862. The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America.
De Morgan's grave in Brookwood Cemetery. Collections of De Morgan's work exist in many museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the William Morris Gallery in London, a substantial and representative collection in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and a small but well-chosen collection along with much other pottery at Norwich.
Posthumous exhibitions of Morris's work were held at the William Morris Gallery, London from 23 August-2 October 1983, National Art Library, London from June–July 1990, Blackwell, Lake District from 26 April-11 July 2005, University of Reading from 12 January-20 March 2009, and Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden from 3 April-17 May 2015.