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ERIC RAVILIOUS

 

REFERENCES

FROM SIGNATURE NOVEMBER 1935
Artists of note, the artist 1943
IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN GALLERY 1
IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN GALLERY 2 CERAMINCS, EXTRAS

 

 

MONOTYPE CALENDAR

1929
1933

 

HIGH STREET a selection

 

SINGLES

Design for Wisden's Almanac Art and Industry Sept 1938 single
ENGLISH WRITERS, typical series jacket
CONSEQUENCES, frontispiece...AND TEXT
HIGH STREET cover
COUNTRY LIFE CALENDAR 1939
MANOR GARDENS EASTBOURNE 1927

 

 

July 22, 1903 — Born in Acton, West London
1919 — Attends the Eastbourne School of Art, East Sussex
1922 — Awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Art
1925 — Elected to the Society of Wood Engravers
1927 — Illustrates Nicholas Breton’s The Twelve Moneths; exhibits with Edward Bawden and Douglas Percy Bliss at St George’s Gallery, London
1928 — Commissioned with Bawden to paint a mural for Morley College
February 1930 — Stanley Baldwin unveils Morley College murals; Ravilious marries Tirzah Garwood on July 5
1932 — Designs Twelfth Night for Golden Cockerel Press; moves to Brick House, Great Bardfield, Essex
1933 — Makes engravings for The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, murals for Midland Railway Hotel in Morecambe, Lancashire, and, in November, stages a one-man exhibition at Zwemmer’s Gallery, London
1934 — Rents Bank House, Castle Hedingham, Essex
1936 — Designs Edward VIII Coronation Mug for Wedgwood
1937 — Engravings for The Country Life Cookery Book; designs exhibit and catalogue for British Pavilion, Paris International Exhibition
1938 — Illustrates Nonesuch Press edition of The Natural History of Selborne
December 1939 — Appointed Official War Artist attached to the Admiralty
1940 — Working at Chatham, Sheerness, Whitstable and Grimsby, May–June, with HMS Highlander to Norway; drawings for submarine interiors at Portsmouth
1941 — Submarine lithographs exhibited at Leicester Galleries, London
1942 — Spring, with the RAF in Yorkshire, Essex and Hertfordshire; August 28 posted to RAF Kaldadarnes, Iceland
September 2, — 1942 — Reported missing

 

 

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