with Edward Le Bas, 1948;
with Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London;
with John D. Higham, January 1983
Exhibition History:
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Recent Watercolours by Eric Ravilious, 11 May – 3 June 1939 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 2);
London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Eric Ravilious 1903-1942: A Memorial Exhibition of Watercolours, Wood-Engravings Illustration Designs etc., 1948-1949 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 14);
Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Eric Ravilious, March 1958 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 27);
London, The Royal Academy of Arts (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 252);
London, Anthony d’Offay, British Drawings and Watercolours 1890-1940, 20th January – 6th March 1982 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 56);
London, Imperial War Museum, Imagined Realities, 2003 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 41);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Sea Pictures, 16 January – 21 March 2010;
Woking, The Lightbox, Ways of Seeing, 15 January – 13 March 2011;
London, RCA, A Perfect Place to Grow, 16 November 2012 – 3 January 2013;
London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Ravilious, 1 April – 31 August 2015 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 146-147);
Lymington, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Shorelines: Artists on the South Coast, 19 September 2015 – 9 January 2016;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017;
London, Business Design Centre, London Art Fair Museum Partner, Ten Years – A Century of Art, 18 – 22 January 2017;
Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship. English Artist Designers 1922 – 1942, 27 May – 17 Sept 2017 and touring to Millennium Galleries, Sheffield (7 October 2017 – 7 Jan 2018) and Compton Verney, Warwickshire (17 Mar – 9 June 2018);
Sheffield, Museums Sheffield, Darkness into Light, 20 October 2018 – 13 January 2019;
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change, 17 August 2019 – 5 January 2020;
Woking, The Lightbox, Collector’s Favourites (online exhibition), 1 June – 1 September 2020;
Hastings, Hastings Contemporary, Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach, 27 May – 31 October 2021
Literature:
Freda Constable, The England of Eric Ravilious, Lund Humphries, Hampshire, 2003 (illustrated, pl. 13);
James Russell, Ravilious in Pictures, A Travelling Artist, Mainstone Press, Norwich, 2012 (illustrated, full page fly leaf)
Eric Ravilious studied at Eastbourne School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art from 1922–1925 where he was taught by the celebrated landscape painter Paul Nash. Despite much success as a designer, Ravilious concentrated increasingly on watercolours from the late 1930s. His lyrical landscapes often feature the downland and coastal areas of southern England and show a world in suspense. Ravilious’ use of delicately balanced colour and mathematical precision to divide up the painting space draws our eye along the harbour wall to a vanishing point in the middle ground of the painting which is part sky, part water. Ravilious’ use of a ‘starved brush’, with little paint, was learnt from Paul Nash, and is a technique that helps evoke the subtle balance of light.
