Bought it as a gift for my husband after we saw and loved the recent Ravilious exhibition at Dulwich. It is a go-to place for museum lovers whether they want to read up on an exhibition they are about to visit; read more about an exhibition being held far afield or revisit an old favourite show.

M. Richards pointed out in the foreword to the 1938 book, all real places, but in many cases we are given only tantalising clues as to their name or location. He had his son home schooled from their house ‘Fernlea’, in Cookham, but also sent him for private drawing lessons to local artist Dorothy Bailey. In his work, Tucker eschewed avant-garde experimentation and, like many of the inter-war artists – Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Winifred Knights, Harold Williamson, and James Cowie amongst them – he preferred to stay with realism. He encountered Surrealism, and after moving back to England became a founding member of the British Surrealist Group.

Peter Yates (1920-1982) was born in Leytonstone, East London, to Frank Yates, manager of a marine chandlery and Frances Margaret (née Clarke). This new book by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious, provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the artist's work in all media - watercolour, illustration, printmaking, graphic design, textiles and ceramics - and firmly positions Ravilious as a major figure in the history of early 20th-century British art. The book tells the story of the English hill monuments and chalk figures on the Downlands of Southern England, illustrated with the paintings that Ravilious produced of the chalk paths, river paths and hilltops of Sussex and Wiltshire.

After a few years the family moved to North London and here, interrupted only by his schooling at Christ’s Hospital, Hastings, Vaughan would live for the rest of his life.

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), artist, designer and wood-engraver, produced his first lithograph in 1936 entitled 'Newhaven Harbour', which was printed by the Curwen Press. This book tells the story of a Puffin picture book that Ravilious was planning just before his untimely death in 1942. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it's more like having a well-read friend than a subscription to a literary review. An exceptionally gifted sketcher, Underwood was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy where he studied life-drawing under the tutelage of E. Notoriously hard to find in decent condition, as the publisher's pictorial boards are so fragile, and virtually unknown in its glassine complete with flaps.

The book was never reprinted because the original plates were destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942 (in the same year Ravilious, who was a captain in the Royal Marines and an official war artist, was killed in action). Directly after school she noticed an advertisement in The Studio inviting applications for a training programme specialising in linocuts at The Grosvenor School of Art, London. Born in 1890, her family also had business interests in newspaper publishing, and she grew up in the family mansion Toorak House where, subsequent to her training in art, she would set up her studio.

illustrated, 4to, dark blue cloth, paper title label mounted on upper cover, silver gilt spine title, paper-covered slipcase. Eric Ravilious the Title page for his famous book The High street published by Country Life in 1938. However, as the title of the conclusion suggests {'English Eden with "a biting edge"), there is something a little more complex at work which this volume ably illustrates. This book is the first sustained attempt to understand his appeal and importance using a wider artistic and historical context. In a career curtailed by an early death, Ravilious also played a significant role as a designer; Powers argues that Ravilious showed how decoration and historical reference could find a place in the reform of the applied arts whilst simultaneously renewing a sense of national identity.