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ENTRY: Ravilious, Eric
Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942) was an English painter, book illustrator, and wood engraver.
Ravilious attended the Royal College of Art, where he studied under Paul Nash. He began his working life
as a muralist, first coming to notice as an artist in 1924. He went on to become one of the best-known
artists of the 1930s. He was also the leading light of wood-engraving in England at that time, and
undertook ceramic designs for Wedgwood. Ravilious was killed while serving as a war artist in the Royal Air Force
on a rescue mission off the coast of Iceland.
Neglected for many years after the war, a major retrospective of Eric Ravilious' work was staged by The
Imperial War Museum in 2004.
His son, James Ravilious, became a noted photographer of the English landscape and rural life.
 'May' (1925). A woodcut by Eric Ravilious. Alan Powers. Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities (2004) Freda Constable. The England of Eric Ravilious (2003) Richard Morphet. Eric Ravilious in Context (2002) Robert Harling. Ravilious and Wedgwood: The Complete Wedgwood Designs of Eric Ravilious (1995)
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