Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942)
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STORM 1941 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) P159
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ALPHABET MUG 1937 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) C193
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CORONATION MUG 1952 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) AN543
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VEGETABLE DISH IN GARDEN DESIGN 1938 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) P6051
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DESSERT PLATE IN GARDEN DESIGN 1938 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) P6049
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GARDEN IMPLEMENTS JUG 1939 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) C189
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CORONATION MUG 1936 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) C188
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RAINBOW AND CAMOUFLAGED SHIP 1942 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) P158
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THE CARNATION HOUSE, KEW 1938 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) P2477
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BOAT RACE DAY BOWL 1938 Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) C191
Eric Ravilious was born in Eastbourne, Sussex; he studied at Eastbourne School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Ravilious taught for a time at the Royal College and at the Ruskin Drawing School in Oxford. His talents for design were many: he produced wood engravings for book illustrations, designed pottery and engraved glass, and through each of these media he insinuated a wry innocence, a sense of slight strangeness that characterises all of his work. In his watercolours he brought his 'innocent eye' to English rural subjects, bending rules so to speak to produce delicate fantasies out of well known entities such as greenhouses and watering cans. At the outbreak of war in 1939, he was appointed an Official War Artist, and produced an outstanding body of work from then until his death three years later in an air-crash off Iceland. The bizarre quality of war is made to look almost normal in Ravilious' strange juxtapositions of rainbows and mooring posts, dazzle-camouflage and piebald skies, coastal defences and stars appear to shoot from the ground rather than from the sky. A major retrospective of his work was shown at the Imperial War Museum, London in 2003.
Further reading:
Freda Constable, The England of Eric Ravilious, Scolar Press, London 1982
Helen Binyon, Eric Ravilious: memoir of an artist, Lutterworth, Guildford 1983
Eric Ravilious, Submarine Dream: lithographs and letters, edited by Brain Webb, introduction by Peyton Skipworth, The Camberwell Press, London 1996
Anne Ullmann, Ravilious at war: the complete works of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942. The Fleece press, Upper Denby 2002
Alan Powers, Eric Ravilious: Imagined RealitiesPhilip Wildon Publishers, London 2003
Eric Ravilious in Print: Books, Wood Engravings, Lithographs and Ceramics, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2004, introduction by Gaye Smith and Stephanie Boydell
Glossary
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Design
The arrangement of elements or details in an artefact or a work of art.
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Drawing
The depiction of shapes and forms on a flat surface chiefly by means of lines although colour and shading may also be included. Materials most commonly used are pencil, ink, crayon, charcoal, chalk and pastel, although other materials, including paint, can be used in combination.
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- UK, London, Dulwich Picture Gallery
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/humbly-through-the-dust-an-exhibition-for-fermanagh-inspired-by-the-british-council-collection-2012"> 'HUMBLY THROUGH THE DUST' – AN EXHIBITION FOR FERMANAGH INSPIRED BY THE BRITISH COUNCIL COLLECTION- UK, Enniskillen, Cooper Wilkinson Gallery
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/out-of-britain-2012">OUT OF BRITAIN- Romania, Bucharest, National Museum Of Art
- Oman, Muscat, Bait Al Zubair Museum
- Kuwait, Kuwait City, Contemporary Art Platform
- Saudi Arabia, Al Kohbar, Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Science & Technology Center
- Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Athr Gallery
- Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Riyadh National Museum
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/my-yard-munsterland-festival-2011-2011">MY YARD - MUNSTERLAND FESTIVAL 2011- Germany, Kolvenburg
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/my-yard-2009">MY YARD- UK, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/3-by-1-2009">3 BY 1- UK, Farnham, Crafts Study Centre
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/eric-ravilious-imagined-realities-2003">ERIC RAVILIOUS IMAGINED REALITIES- UK, London, Imperial War Museum
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/drawing-distinctions-1997">DRAWING DISTINCTIONS- Poland, Lodz, Museum Sztuki
- UK, Nottingham, Castle Museum And Art Gallery
- UK, Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Gallery
- Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, Museum Of Fine Arts
- Russia, Moscow, Pushkin Museum Of Fine Arts
- Russia, St Petersburg, The Hermitage
- Canada, Whitehorse, Yukon, Yukon Arts Centre
- Canada, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Prairie Art Gallery
- Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Winnipeg Art Gallery
- Canada, Timmins, Timmins Museum And N E C
- Canada, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Acadia University Art Gallery
- Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, National Art Gallery
- Malaysia, Penang, Penang State Museum And Art Gallery
- USA, Tempe, Arizona, Arizona State University Art Museum
- USA, Berkeley, University Art Museum
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/the-pleasures-of-peace-midcentury-art-craft-1999">THE PLEASURES OF PEACE MIDCENTURY ART & CRAFT- Scotland, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Art Gallery And Museum
- Scotland, Aberdeen, Museum And Art Gallery
- UK, Brighton, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
- UK, Norwich, The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/the-absent-presence-1991">THE ABSENT PRESENCE- UK, London, Geffrye Museum
- UK, Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/for-a-wider-world-1990">FOR A WIDER WORLD- Argentina, Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes
- Bulgaria, Sofia, SS Cyril and Methodius International Foundation
- Luxembourg, Musee National D'histoire Et D'art
- USSR, Kyiv, Ukrainian Museum of Fine Arts
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/eric-ravilious-1903-41-a-reassessment-of-his-life-and-work-1986">ERIC RAVILIOUS 1903-41 A REASSESSMENT OF HIS LIFE AND WORK- UK, London, Crafts Council
- UK, Bristol, Bristol Museum And Art Gallery
- UK, Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery
- UK, Durham, DLI Museum & Art Centre
- UK, Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery And Museum
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/british-drawings-and-watercolours-from-rowlandson-to-riley-1982">BRITISH DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS FROM ROWLANDSON TO RILEY- Scotland, Edinburgh, The Royal Scottish Academy
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum Of Art
- China, Shenyang, Shenyang Art Gallery
- China, Beijing, China Art Gallery
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/eric-ravilious-watercolours-1940-42-1979">ERIC RAVILIOUS WATERCOLOURS 1940-42- UK, London, Imperial War Museum
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/eric-ravilious-1903-1953-1972">ERIC RAVILIOUS 1903-1953- UK, Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery And Museum
- UK, London, The Morley Gallery
- UK, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
- UK, Colchester, The Minories
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/eric-ravilious-1958">ERIC RAVILIOUS- UK, Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/contemporary-art-from-great-britain-united-states-and-france-1949">CONTEMPORARY ART FROM GREAT BRITAIN, UNITED STATES AND FRANCE- Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Art Gallery Of Ontario
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/contemporary-british-prints-and-drawings-from-the-wakefield-collection-1947">CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PRINTS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE WAKEFIELD COLLECTION- Fiji, Suva, Fiji Arts Club
- New Zealand, Rotorua, Rotorua Museum Of Art And History
- New Zealand, Hamilton, Waikato Museum Of Art & History
- New Zealand, Rotorua, Society Of Arts
- New Zealand, Auckland, Aukland City Art Gallery
- New Zealand, Wellington, Wellington City Art Gallery
- New Zealand, Waipukurau, Not recorded
- New Zealand, Takapuna, Not recorded
- New Zealand, Dannevirke, Not recorded
- New Zealand, Napier, Napier
- New Zealand, Wanganni
- Australia, Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery
- Australia, Sydney, Art Gallery Of New South Wales
- Australia, Hobart, Tasmanian Museum And Art Gallery
- Australia, Melbourne, Melbourne Royal Exhibition Building
- Australia, Adelaide, Art Gallery Of South Australia
- Australia, Perth, Art Gallery Of Western Australia
- UK, London, Victoria And Albert Museum
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/british-contemporary-painters-1946">BRITISH CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS- USA, Worcester, Wocester Art Museum
- USA, St Louis, St Louis City Art Museum
- USA, Buffalo, Albright Knox Art Gallery
- USA, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum Of Art
- Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Art Gallery Of Ontario
- USA, San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor/ Fine Arts Museum
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/exhibition-of-national-war-pictures-and-a-few-pieces-of-sculpture-1945">Exhibition of National War Pictures (and a Few Pieces of Sculpture)- UK, London, Royal Academy Of Arts
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/modern-paintings-and-drawings-by-british-artists-1943">MODERN PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY BRITISH ARTISTS- UK, London, Ognisko Polskie (Polish Hearth) Belgrave Square
- UK, London, Belgian Institute, Belgrave Square
- UK, London, Czechoslovak Institute, Grosvenor Place
- UK, London, Greek House, Grovesnor Square
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/contemporary-english-watercolours-1943">CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH WATERCOLOURS- Sweden, Malmo, Malmo Museum
- Sweden, Stockholm, Nationalmusei
- Sweden, Goteborg, Konstmuseum, Konsthallen
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http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/exhibition/contemporary-british-art-1939">CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ART- Sweden, Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall
- Finland, Helsingfors, Konsthall
- Poland, Warsaw, Instytut Propagandy Sztuki