#ravilious

[caedmonofwhitby]

Considerable Falls of Snow

Eric Ravilious, 1938.

This is one of his wood-engravings from the period.

The original artwork is in the collection of Royal Academy.

[thevicarage]

Beachy Head Lighthouse by Eric Ravilious, 1939.

[ashmoleanmuseum]

#AshmoleanAdvent Day 6: An engraving by Eric Ravilious

Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)⁠ trained as a wood engraver and mural painter at the Royal College of Art where he was taught by Paul Nash. He worked initially as a book illustrator and designer but turned increasingly to watercolour during the 1930s. This engraving, showing mountains, stars and gems, is from a large series completed to illustrate the 1933 book Fifty Four Conceits by Martin Armstrong.⁠ ⁠ Ravilious died in 1942 off the coast of Iceland as a war artist. His plane disappeared while on a search and rescue mission. ⁠

[curiouscatalog]

From: Cockalorum ... being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, June 1943-December 1948. London : Golden Cockerel Press, 1951

Z239.2.G6 G613

[artistsanimals]

Title: Two Cows Artist: Eric Ravilious Date: c. 1935 Medium: watercolor Source: Fry Art Gallery

[englishmodernism]

Button Hole sewing Jack Townend Aurolithograph from The Clothes We Wear. Townend studied at the Anglia School of Art, in Oxford, during the 30s where he was taught by Barnett Freedman and Ravilious was a visiting teacher. Shirley Hughes also attended there after the war. #jacktownend #theclotheswewear #puffinpicturebook #autolithography #oxford #barnettfreedman #ravilious

[thevicarage]

Woodblock engraving by Eric Ravilious (c. 1930s)

[ashmoleanmuseum]

Eric Ravilious

English painter, designer, illustrator and engraver Eric Ravilious died on this day in 1942 off the coast of Iceland as a war artist. His plane disappeared while on a search and rescue mission.

Ravilious trained as a wood engraver and mural painter at the Royal College of Art where he was taught by Paul Nash. He worked initially as a book illustrator and designer but turned increasingly to watercolour during the 1930s.

These two engravings are from a large series completed to illustrate the 1933 book Fifty Four Conceits by Martin Armstrong. You can see more works by Ravilious on our website here.