October 28, 1993

Peggy Angus (November 9, 1904 to October 28, 1993) was a British designer and painter, based in London but with the traditional country cottage . Her generation was superseded in the postwar years by the creative splash of a new generation, and she was forgotten even more than her friends, Eric Ravilious, and Edward Bawden. Yet her tiles pop up in many English places, and it may be true, as she herself unshakably believed, that she was the best designer since William Morris.
A recent retrospective (2014) was written up by The Guardian and there we get some perspective. They illustrate their subject with one of her tiles.



Some evidence of her obscurity is:

Her husband [the architecture writer JM Richards] doesn't even mention her in his memoir 

[And]... In 1958, Angus designed a 50ft-long futuristic tile mural for the British section of the Brussels World Fair. Yet she was not invited to the opening ceremony and had to travel to Belgium to see it in situ at her own cost.

Peggy Angus is the subject of two recent books: Carolyn Trant's
Art for life: the story of Peggy Angus, (2004) and James Russell's Peggy Angus: Designer, Teacher, Painter (2014).

I cite the painting below, of John Piper, (1937) as evidence the attention is overdue.