The artists

Ceri Richards

Born: Dunvant, Swansea, Wales 1903
Died: London 1971

Studied: Swansea College of Art 1921–4
Royal College of Art, London, 1924–7

Selected commissions: Supper at Emmaus, St Edmund Hall, Oxford 1958; Deposition, St. Mary’s Church, Swansea 1960; stained glass windows, Derby Cathedral 1964–5; tabernacle, reredos and windows for the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, Liverpool RC Cathedral 1968.

Selected collections: Tate Gallery, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales; Leeds University Collection; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; Pallant House, Chichester, Methodist Collection of Modern Art.