Modern, English, And Strange
Jenny Uglow writes: ‘The work of Eric Ravilious…is one of the most distinctive British artists of the 1930s and 1940s. The subject of the show is his rhythmic, poetic watercolors—of the downs, with their strange chalk figures, fishing boats drawn up on a beach, farmhouse bedrooms and wartime defenses—which have been billed as “quintessentially English.†Hauntingly lovely, they rouse nostalgia for a world most of us never knew.’
