Artist in various media and teacher, correct name Arthur Lett-Haines. Was educated at St Paul’s School and served in the Army in World War I. He was early a member of an artistic set including E McKnight Kauffer, John Middleton Murry and D H Lawrence. Lett Haines was always an experimental artist whose work had a strong linear element and who admitted a big debt to Picasso. In 1918 he met the painter Cedric Morris and they lived together for 60 years as lovers, although it was sometimes a stormy partnership. A less consistent painter than Morris, Haines chose to take over the running of the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing household. As a teacher Haines believed in giving students freedom to develop along independent lines. There was a retrospective at Redfern Gallery, 1984.