Tirzah Garwood : beyond Ravilious
James Russell ; with contributions by Jennifer Higgie & Ella Ravilious.
Language: English
Published by Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2024
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Written by James Russell, author of the bestselling Ravilious (2015), this beautifully illustrated book is published to coincide with the Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious, the first exhibition to explore the full range of Garwood's achievements, held at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 19 November 2024 - 26 May 2025. 149 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), portraits ; 28 cm. Minimal shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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- Title
- Tirzah Garwood : beyond Ravilious
- Author
- James Russell ; with contributions by Jennifer Higgie & Ella Ravilious.
- Publisher
- Philip Wilson Publishers, London
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1781301301
- ISBN 13
- 9781781301302
- Seller catalogs
- Art, Biography
Tirzah Garwood (1908–1951) proved herself an artist of rare talent, in a life tragically cut short by illness, yet little of her work has been seen in public since her Memorial Exhibition in 1952. Written by James Russell, author of the bestselling Ravilious (2015), this beautifully illustrated book is published to coincide with the Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious, the first exhibition to explore the full range of Garwood’s achievements.
A witty observer of the human condition, Garwood made her first breakthrough as a wood engraver of rare ability while still in her teens. After marrying Eric Ravilious she became a devoted mother to three children. During this period she took up paper marbling and quickly achieved renown for the dazzling originality of her decorative papers. In her early thirties she suffered the double blow of a breast cancer diagnosis and her husband’s death on active service in World War II. Undaunted, she wrote her autobiography Long Live Great Bardfield and began creating a series of strange, beautiful oil paintings and collaged constructions.
In Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious her work is, for the first time, given the public showcase and critical examination it deserves, revealing Garwood’s development of a distinctive ‘sophisticated naive’ approach that subtly transformed innocent subjects to unsettling effect. More than ninety works by Tirzah Garwood – including books, studies and ephemera, almost exclusively from private collections – are accompanied by artworks by Eric Ravilious that set the context in which the artists worked together, exploring the shared interests and techniques of this remarkable creative couple.
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