About: Kit Lewis

Kathleen Margaret "Kit" Lewis (27 September 1911 – 1998) was a British painter. The daughter of Henry Bryan Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett-Osborne and Margaret Sydney Bourns, she was born Kathleen Margaret Godfrey-Faussett-Osborne in Lichfield, Staffordshire. She studied at the Chelsea College of Art under Graham Sutherland. In 1940, she married , an artist who died in North Africa in 1943 while employed as a war artist. In 1954, she married Sir James Maude Richards, an architectural writer; the couple had one son. Lewis joined The London Group in 1948. In 1953, she had her first solo show at the Leicester Galleries and continued to show there on a frequent basis.