Eric Ravilious: Extraordinary Realities

"The long white roads and virgin beeches are a temptation."

Red Cottage, Watercolour on Paper, 1927 (British Museum)

Pond at Birling Manor Farm (East Dean), Watercolour and Pencil on Paper, 1925 (Towner)

Two Women Sitting in a Garden, Watercolour on Paper, 1932 (Fry Art Gallery)

Newt Pond, Watercolour and Pencil on Paper, 1932 (Towner Art Gallery)

Tree Trunk and Wheelbarrow, Watercolour, c. 1933 (Private Collection)

The River Thames at Hammersmith, ‘Watercolour, Ink and Pencil’, 1933

November 5th, Watercolour on Paper, 1933 (Private Collection)

Cement Works No. 2, Watercolour on Paper, c. 1934 (Sheffield Museums)

No. 29 Bus, Watercolour and Pencil on Paper, 1934 (Towner)

Shepherd’s Cottage, Watercolour on Paper, 1934

Talbot-Darracq, Watercolour and Pencil on Paper, 1934 (Towner Gallery)

Train Going Over A Bridge at Night, Watercolour, 1935 (Towner)

Chalk Paths, Watercolour on Paper, 1935 (Private Collection)

The long white roads and virgin beeches are a temptation. What quests they propose!

Edward Thomas, The South Country

Caravans, Watercolour on Paper, 1936 (Fry Art Gallery)

‘The Causeway, Wiltshire Downs’, Watercolour, 1937 (Victoria & Albert Museum)

Geraniums and Carnations, Watercolour on Paper, c. 1938 (Fry Art Gallery)

The Yellow Funnel, Watercolour on Paper, 1938 (Grundy Art Gallery)

‘Duke of Hereford’s Knob & Baptist Chapel, Capel-y-ffin, Powys’, Watercolour, 1938

Aldeburgh Bathing Machines, Pencil and Watercolour on Paper, 1938 (Private Collection)

Still Life with Acanthus Leaves, Watercolour and Graphite on Paper, c. 1938-1939 (Fry Art Gallery)

Farmhouse Bedroom, Watercolour, 1939 (Victoria & Albert Museum)

Train Landscape, Watercolour on Paper (collage), 1940 (Aberdeen Art Gallery)

Leaving Scapa Flow, Watercolour on Paper, c. 1940

The Potato Field, Watercolour on Paper, 1941 (Fry Art Gallery)

South Coast Beach, Watercolour on Paper, 1939-1942 (Aberdeen Art Gallery)

‘Elementary Flying Training School, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire’, Watercolour on Paper, 1942 (Imperial War Museums)

Two Figures in a Boat, Watercolour on Paper, Date Unknown (Fry Art Gallery)

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