Edward Bawden [1903 - 1989] was a painter, Illustrator & graphic artist who's work was varied in subject, medium and application. He formed part of the early twentieth century group of remarkable artists which included others such as Eric Ravilious, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Richard Eurich and Barbara Hepworth, his name may well not be as well known as some of theirs, but through the sheer diversity of talents, many people are familiar with his work than are consciously aware.

He was trained at the Royal College of Art, with fellow student Eric Ravilious, and taught and inspired by Paul Nash. By the 1920's he was working for the highly acclaimed private press, the Curwen Press, he was creating illustrations for leading accounts such as Transport for London, Westminster Bank and Twinings, this continued into the 1930 when he produced some of his most humorous and innovative work for Fortnum and Mason, Imperial Airways and Shell. His works have and can been seen in many places from the tiles that line the walls in the London tube stations of Islington and Highbury, to film posters, his illustrations grace the pages of a great number of books, and his watercolour paintings are collected the world over.

THE STORY OF HIGH STREET - Eric Ravilious

Essays By: Alan Powers & James Russell

RAVILIOUS ENGRAVINGS - Catalogue Raisonne:

Ravilious when he died was only 39, he was in this time a prolific artist and somehow found time to engrave well over 400 blocks. Catalogues of many of his engraved works have been published in the past, but as is inevitable a number of deletions and additions have been identified, so this new book sets out to illustrate all of the engravings known to have been made by Ravilious. He was a vivid correspondent and many of his letters, extracts from some published here for the first time, refer directly to the commissions, engraving and reception of a number of the illustrations. The research for this book has been greatly assisted by the Ravilious, Bawden and Bliss families who have made available scrapbooks and files including preparatory drawings, and by the access to three large collections of Ravilious's work. The 400 or so engravings presented here are taken from the best available impressions of engravings, they have been reproduced to the highest standard and are all printed full size.

Limited Edition of 700 Copies.

Please email directly for copies of this book: info@wychwoodbooks.com

£175.00

AWAY WE GO! - Advertising London's Transport - Edward Bawden & Eric Ravilious

London Transport, and its antecedents, had a design culture of remarkable richness in the interwar years. This much is common knowledge. Think of Charles Holden's station designs, the lettering of Edward Johnson, the Underground map of Harry Beck, and the posters of Edward McKinght Kauffer. Less well known are the black and white illustrations made for press advertising, although at the time they must have achieved and wider penetration than all the other forms of design and publicity, since they were seen in daily papers even by people whose life or work only rarely took them to London. They therefore deserve study and celebration and of the many artists who illustrated them, Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious seem to stand out as having qualities that go beyond the period charm shown by others.

£20.00

ENTERTAINING À LA CARTE: Edward Bawden and Fortnum & Mason

Fortnum & Mason and Edward Bawden were unlikely partners: one a firm devoted to luxury provisions and lavish entertaining, the other an acutely shy and retiring artist who preferred work to pleasure. Yet in spite of these differences, their relationship spanned half a century and inspired Bawden to produce some of his finest commercial work.

This book brings together many of the illustrations that Bawden produced for the firm before and after World War II. Full of humour and joie de vivre, these stunning designs were used to decorate seasonal catalogues, brochures, menu cards, order forms and envelopes, all of which are highly sought after by collectors of Bawden's work and Fortnum's ephemera.

To introduce the illustrations and set them in context, the book begins with an engaging and informative essay by Peyton Skipwith, a former director of the Fine Arts Society and good friend of the artist. He presents the significant players in this fascinating drama, notably Fortnum's entrepreneurial Managing Director Colonel Charles Wyld and advertising guru Hugh Stuart Menzies, who first brought the unlikely partners together.

"If the world's favourite English emporium is famous for promoting a love of good things, Edward Bawden is the Artist who has best captured that spirit. This book celebrates a wonderful collaboration."
Tim Mainstone

£100.00

DESIGN - Edward Bawden & Eric Ravilious

Design is an excellent introduction to the work of two major British designers and artists, Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious.

Featuring some previously unpublished images, this fascinating book presents, in over 100 illustrations, every aspect of their creativity, including advertising, designs for wallpapers, posters, book jackets, trade cards and ceramics.

The Brick House pattern for the covers of Design is composed of a drawing by Edward Bawden, 1950, and an engraving by Eric Ravilious, 1933.

This is a revised and enlarged Second Edition of Design, the first edition was published to coincide with the centenary exhibition at the Fry Art Gallery, 2003.

£12.50

EDWARD BAWDEN & HIS CIRCLE - Malcolm Yorke

This biography of the life and works of Edward Bawden has been compiled by Malcolm Yorke with the full cooperation of Bawdens family and executors, it hence follows his life both socially and artistically including material from his own diaries and scrapbooks allowing the reader an insight to his decisions and final pieces. A highly informative view into every aspect of the life and works of Edward Bawden and his contemporaries at Great Bardfield, where he lived in Essex. A very well constructed and illustrated view of the life and work of Edward Bawden.

This is a revised and expanded edition, originally published, 2005, as a limited edition by the Fleece Press.

£35.00

EDWARD BAWDEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Edward Bawden had already established a growing reputation as a printmaker, designer and book illustrator when, at the age of 36 he was appointed one of the original five Official War Artists for the Second World War. Between 1940 and 1944, during his two tours of duty in the Middle East, he produced some acclaimed water colours, which immediately gave him and entirely new standing among contemporary artists. Deprived of access to linocuts and engraving that he had already mastered, and without the demand for the humorous advertisements that had endeared him to Shell and London Transport, he devoted his time for the first time to portraiture as well as to his already well-developed interest in topography. TraveLling extensively throughout Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia he developed new techniques, perfected his eye, relaxed his approach and produced some of his most memorable watercolours.

This book brings together 45 of Bawden's watercolours from this period, now housed in the Imperial War Museum and many of them published here for the first time.

£25.00

ERIC RAVILIOUS - IMAGINED REALITIES - Alan Powers

Imagined Realities includes illustrations of many previously unpublished paintings and including a number from private collections, as well as surveying Eric Ravilious's other artistic activities.   The text draws on many letters and other documents, again previously unpublished, and is the most comprehensive account of Ravilious's career ever published.   It also attempts to position Ravilious in relation to English art of his time and more recent critical and cultural issues.  The book was published to accompany a centenary exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.

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RAVILIOUS & WEDGWOOD

The Complete Wedgwood Designs of Eric Ravilious

The product of the imagination of head of design at Wedgwood, Victor Skellern, who had known Ravilious at the Royal College of Art, and the iconic English scenes depicted by Ravilious.   "The idiosyncratic viewpoint, technique and humour of the artist were ideally suited for transfer to ceramic surfaces, and, much to his surprise, Ravilious discovered that native craftsmen had an innate talent for the transfer of his designs to what were, for him new surfaces."   A complete catalogue of Ravilious's designs.

£18.50

ERIC RAVILIOUS - Memoir of an Artist

Memoir of an Artist is introduced by Richard Morphet, Deputy Keeper of Modern Art at the Tate Gallery, who places Ravilious in the context of modern-day appreciation of his work and describes the close relationship between Eric Ravilious and Helen Binyon, which led her to write this illuminating book, now reprinted by The Lutterworth Press in paperback. The book is lavishly illustrated with examples of Ravilious's work from his student days to his powerfully realised drawings and paintings as an Official War Artist.

£27.50