Biography
William Evans Charles Morgans (b. London 1903 - d. Switzerland 1979) was educated at St Dunstan's College and attended Camberwell School of Art (1920) and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1922, winning the Prix de Rome for engraving in 1924. He spent three years in Italy studying at the British School in Rome. He then returned to London and exhibited prints both in London and Chicago. Following the collapse of the fine art print market in the Depression, he moved to Argyll, Scotland, in 1932, taking up teaching, painting and continuing printmaking until failing eyesight in 1938 brought an end to this aspect of his career.
He returned to England to teach at Harrow School of Art. During WW2 he worked for the Camoflague Unit and afterwards for the British Rural Industries Bureau until retirement in 1968. He then moved to Switzerland where he died. A retrospective exhibition of his prints, from the between wars period, was held at the Fairchild Memorial Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington DC in 1994. His work is held in the National Gallery of Art, Washington as well as the British Museum.
