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Eric Ravilious (1903-1942)  
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Painter, designer & illustrator


   

1903 Born at 90 Churchfield Road, Acton on 22 July.

1914
Moved to Eastbourne

1919
Entered Eastbourne School of Art

1922
Awarded scholarship to Royal College of Art. Taught by Paul Nash.
Friends with fellow student Richard Bawden,

1925
Finished college.

1926
Met Tirzah Garwood, and Eastbourne art student.

1927
Taught at Eastbourne & lived with his parents.
Exhibition of watercolours at St George’s Gallery, London with Bawden & Bliss
Engraved for Cockerel Press.

1928-30
Painted mural at Morley College with Bawden (destroyed in 1940 Blitz)

1929
Wood engravings published.

1930
Married Tirzah Garwood. Moved to 5 Stratford Road, Kensington

1931
Moved to Weltje Road, Hammersmith

1932
Stayed at Great Bardfield, Essex with Bawden

1933
(30) Worked with his wife on mural for Midland Hotel, Morecambe.



Solo watercolur show at Zwemmer
42 wood engravings for Kynoch Press Notebook.


1934 Bought Bank House at Castle Hedingham
Stayed at Furlongs near Lewes,



Affair with Helen Binyon.
Pier Pavilion Colwyn Bay mural with his wife.

1935
Designed Everyman Library titles for Dent
Included in an exhibition of Essex artists at Silver End, Essex.
Started on High Street work.

1936
Coronation mug design for Wedgewood




1937
End of affair with Helen Binyon.
Visited John Nash in Buckinghampshire.

1938 (35)
Visited Capel-y-Fin.
Visited Dungeness with John Nash.
High Street (24 lithographs with text by JM Richards) published by Curwen Press.
2,000 printed.

1939 Feb
: Painted Beachy Head & Lighthouse.
Son James Ravilious born.
Painted hill figures.



Dec: Official war artist after outbreak of WWJJ.

1940 In Norway.
Exhibition of war artists at National Gallery.
In Gosport where he drew submarines,
Painted sea defences at Newhaven & Eastbourne,



1941 Moved to Ironbridge Farm, Shalford, Essex
Painted at Dover.
Painted in Scotland

1942
With RAF in Yorkshire, Herts & Essex
With RAF in Ireland.
2 Sept: MIA on an air-sea rescue mission.
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Galleries

Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Waldon, Essex
Towne Eastbourne, Sussex
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Books

Em Angel. Wood Engravings of Eric Ravilious (1930)
Engravings of Eric Ravilious (Shenval Press 1946)
Eric Ravilious: A Memorial Exhibition of Watercolours, Wood Engravings, Illustrations & Designs (1948)
Complete Wood Engravings by Eric Ravilious - JM Richards (Curwen Press 1972)
England of Eric Ravilious - F Constable & S Simon (HScolar Press 1982)
Eric Ravilious, Memoir of an Artist - H Binyon (Frederic C Bell 1983)
Eric Ravilious: A Re-assessment of His Life & Work - P Andrew (Towner 1986)
Submarine Dream Lithographs & Letters - Ed. by B Webb (1986)
Ravilious & Wedgewood - R Dalrymple (Richard Dennis 1986)
Imagined Realities - Alan Powers (IWM/Philip Wilson 2003)
Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood
Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship - Andy Friend (Thames & Hudson 2017)
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Social media

Eric Ravilious and Friends
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