Ravilious Eric Spalding Frances (1 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 19 x 25cm 54pp very good paperback with an extensive introduction by Frances Spalding followed by colour reproductions. Very slight curl to lower front edge. Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. 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.…