‘Lady in the Sea’ series. 1950s
 

‘Lady in the Sea’ series. 1950s
 

‘Lady in the Sea’ series. 1950s
 

Alabaster Vase. 1956
 

Child Mummer with Golden Oriole. 1983
 

Derelict Church. 1946
 

Dream Landscape with Lake. 1954
 

Female Head. 1979
 

Gog Showing King Mummer his Fist. 1983
 

Horsetails in the Sunset. 1981
 

In Africa. 1954
 

Mother and Daughter. 1979
 

Mother Love in Water. 1947
 

Mummer Insulted by Hostile Alien. 1983
 

Mummer with Fool’s Bauble. 1983
 

On the Seashore. 1946
 

One Day in Summer. 1988
 

Prancing Pony. 1933
 

Shadow in the Water. 1975
 

Shroud of Oedipus. 1975
 

Sunflowers. 1946
 

Taking Tea at Lyons. 1929
 

The Immaculate Conception. 1946
 

The Incredulous Antimorph. 1953
 

The King and Queen,
Prince and Princess. 1958
 

The Princess Wondrous in
Beauty and in Grace. 1958
 

Tryst of Maiden Mummers. 1983
 

View from a Hill. 1946
 

What Enormous Pleasure
they Displayed. 1958
 

Biography

Writer, poet, printmaker, painter, Cox is best known for his remarkable Gogmagog Press books. Cox at the age of 13 received a scholarship to West Ham School of Art where he trained for six years. In the late 1920s he worked in advertising, but disliking the job, he turned to printmaking, painting, designing book jackets, writing novels & poetry, and briefly running a shop in Sicilian Arcade selling only his own work. Although his short stories and a collection of poetry were published commercially in the 1950s, Cox in 1957 set up the Gogmagog Press, resolving to print his own work in his own way thereafter. 35 highly original, beautifully illustrated, hand-made limited edition books followed between 1957 and 1983. In 1991 a bibliography and appreciation was published: 'Morris Cox and the Gogmagog Press,' Private Libraries Association. Cox also produced colour linocuts from 1930, and painted in oil and watercolour for over 60 years. In 1994 the Victoria & Albert Museum held an exhibition to celebrate their acquisition of Cox's personal archive of Gogmagog books and early colour prints. Katharine House Gallery held a substantial and successful exhibition of Cox's paintings, prints and books in 2005.