Her gnarly compositions conjure romantically - charged narratives while delving into
the grotesque aspects of her subjects, simultaneously highlighting both the beauty and the abjection of human eroticism.
Ena Douglas (1926), for example, one
of 50 portraits by Morris exhibited at his one - man show in 1938 at Peggy Guggenheim's Jeune Gallery in London, combines
aspects of Neue Sachlichkeit (primarily those verging on the
grotesque) and cubism, whereby the viewer is almost able to see both sides
of the
subject's face at once.