Throughout Morris’s later life, the artist frequently travelled to Spain, where this landscape may have been painted. In the distance, rocky and arid mountains loom over a landscape composed of olive and almond trees interspersed with cacti in the fore-middle ground. The sun-drenched scene is one out of several landscapes in which Morris explored nature completely untouched by industry or civilisation (refer to 'Morelia, Mexico', 2017.040; 'Crusader Castle', 2017.013). As typical in so many of Morris’s paintings, the artist’s use of a vigorously applied thick impasto and a rich palette, including a bright blue sky juxtaposed with warm Mediterranean colours, adds to the intense impact that this landscape had on Morris.

Cedric Morris (1889-1982)

Landscape, possibly Spain