Eric Ravilious
English painter, war artist, designer, book illustrator and wood engraver (1903-1942) · United Kingdom · On the map · Artists · Died at 39
Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver.
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Two Women in a Garden (Ravilious). Tirzah Garwood on right
Tea at Furlongs, watercolour 1939
May, woodcut of the Long Man of Wilmington by Eric Ravilious, 1925.
Caravans, watercolour, 1936
Alphabet mug by Eric Ravilious, transfer printing on Wedgwood creamware, 1937
HMS Glorious in the Arctic, 1940 (Art IWM ART LD 283)
Morning on the Tarmac, 1941 (Art. IWM ART LD 1712)
Train Landscape, 1940 (Aberdeen Art Gallery)About this person
He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.
