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Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat (née Darwin; 26 August 1885 – 11 February 1957), was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. [1] . Her memoir Period Piece was published in 1952. Biography. Newnham Grange, Raverat's childhood home, now part of Darwin College.
Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat, Darwin al nacer, (Cambridge, 26 de agosto de 1885-11 de febrero de 1957), fue una grabadora de madera inglesa miembro fundador de la Sociedad de Grabadores en Madera (The Society of Wood Engravers). [1]
Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) The granddaughter of naturalist Charles Darwin, Gwen Raverat was one of the first women to insist on and achieve professional training as an artist. She attended the Slade School in 1908, quickly developing her own painterly style of wood-engraving.
Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) was one of England's greatest wood-engravers and a leading figure in the revival of the art form in the 20th Century. She was the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, one of Rupert Brooke's Neo-Pagans and Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury group. Her best-selling memoir, Period Piece is still in print (68 years after its first ...
Hace 2 días · Gwendolen Raverat was born in Cambridge, and was a leading artist in reviving wood engraving in the early 20th century. Raverat studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where she developed her own painterly style of wood engraving. Her first engravings date from 1908,...
1885–1957. British, English. Old Machines 1930s. Gwendolen Raverat (1885–1957) Chippenham Museum. British graphic artist, theatre designer, painter, and writer, born in Cambridge, the daughter of Sir George Darwin, professor of astronomy, and granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
Gwen Raverat - Time And Tide. Gwen Raverat's work as an artist featured regularly in Time and Tide from the late 1920s and into the next decade, and in 1929 she became the magazine’s regular art critic. Gwen Raverat, self portrait, 1910. Reproduced by kind permission of the Gwen Raverat Archive.
