Jeffrey Morgan (British, b.1942)

Eric Von Stroheim

Poster paint and pencil

24 x 16.3/8 in. (61 x 41.6 cm.)

A 1960s pop art design for a tin print for JRM Designs Ltd

Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. His 1924 film Greed (an adaptation of Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague) is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made.

Jeffrey Morgan is a painter, teacher and illustrator born in south Wales, now living in Co. Antrim. He attended Cardiff School of Art from 1960 to 1962, before graduating from the Central School of Art, London in 1965. Morgan taught in art schools in Hornsey, Colchester and Winchester, then Maidenhead School of Art and Design. He contributed work to many periodicals, including The Observer, The Independent, The Times and The Daily Telegraph. His work appeared at the National Portal Gallery, London; The Minories, Colchester; Third Eye Gallery, Athens; Peggy Wynne, New York; John Moores Liverpool Exhibition; and Woodlands Art Gallery. Morgan and his wife, the Belfast-born writer Patricia Craig, lived in southeast London before moving to Co. Antrim in 1999.