The William Morris who persists in the public mind is mostly the one who lingers on our walls – so much so that curators have often felt compelled to ‘reveal’ his other sides, such as his poetry or ...

Rakesh Ramchurn reports on an exhibition exploring how Islamic art influenced the work of the pioneering British designer ...

On William Morris' birthday, we republish his lecture on the decorative arts — in which he laid out his vision of art created by and for the people, and the post-capitalist world that would make ...

This is a design by the British artist and designer May Morris. May was born in 1862 and died in 1938. Her father, William Morris (1834 - 1896), was a famous artist and poet, and May is often ...

Inspired by the writings of social philosopher John Ruskin, William Morris (1834-1896) defined art as “the expression by man of his pleasure in labor," and dedicated himself to art inspired by ...

In the 1830s, the tiny French village of Barbizon became the centre of a quiet revolution in landscape painting that would have a defining influence on the Impressionists and their successors.