ERIC ENNION ONE MAN'S BIRDS

Ennion, Eric, [Edited by Bob Walthew]

ISBN 10: 0952623684 / ISBN 13: 9780952623687

Published by Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Art Gallery, London, 2004

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pp. 141, colour frontispiece and numerous colour plates and illustrations superbly printed by Healeys of Ipswich, suffolk. One Man's Birds focuses on Eric Ennion's life and work in the 1930's. This is one of three books edited by Bob Walthew. Dust jacket fine, not price-clipped. Hardback binding, fine. [Eric Arnold Roberts Ennion 1900 - 1981 A British artist, writer, illustrator, and radio presenter, specialising in birds and other natural history subjects. Born 7th June 1900 at Kettering in Northamptonshire, the son of a country doctor. In 1904 the family moved to Burwell on the edge of the Cambridgeshire fens where, after studying medicine at Caius College and St Mary's Hospital, he joined his father's practice in 1926.He held his first London one-man show of sporting pictures at the Greatorex Galleries in 1937. At the end of the war he became warden of the Field Studies Centre at Flatford Mill in Suffolk. After five years at Flatford, he and his wife Dorothy established their own Field Centre and Bird Observatory at Monks' House in Northumberland. In 1961 they 'retired' to Shalbourne in Wiltshire. There Eric ran his own private courses on landscape and wildlife painting and continued to paint, lecture and teach natural history until his death in 1981. A great champion of wildlife art, he exhibited his own work widely and was especially keen to encourage young artists. He was the author of twelve books (including the posthumously published Bird Man's River), illustrating all but one of them himself, and the illustrator of a similar number by other authors. Ennion was a founder member and Honorary Vice President of the Society of Wildlife Artists. Widely exhibited at the Greatorex Galleries, Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd, West Mills Gallery and snapped up at auctions today.] Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 038190

Bibliographic Details

Title: ERIC ENNION ONE MAN'S BIRDS

Publisher: Benton Street Books in association with The Wildlife Art Gallery, London

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Eric Ennion

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Book

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Synopsis:

144pp 2004 1st Edition from the Wildlife Art Gallery. Variety of colour illustrations throughout the book. The book and dust jacket condition is fine. One man's Birds focuses on the field sketches Ennion made from the 1930's which he kept as his lifetime reference material. The book contains 475 individual studies as well as the 26 composite plates for Bird Man's River.